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Living Wall at Edmonton International Airport

02/04/13
One of the more impressive sights at Singapore’s Changi Airport is in Terminal 3, where there is a five-story tall indoor vertical garden, called the ‘Green Wall,’ that stretches across the  building.   The “tapestry” was created by Tierra Design and contains a mixture of 10,000 exotic, tropical climbing plants interspersed with four cascading waterfalls. […]

Fresh art Indianapolis International Airport

01/28/13
There are several fresh art installations at Indianapolis International Airport, including video animation, photography, videography, hand-blown glass, metal sculpture, paintings, beadwork and more. Here’s a preview: Barry Anderson’s Lawn Ornaments will be displayed on the airport’s video wall through June. “In Lawn Ornaments, Anderson creates a bug’s-eye view of a slow march across a suburban […]

Airport amenity of the week: yoga room at Burlington Int’l Airport

01/22/13
Vermont’s Burlington International Airport (BTV) has joined San Francisco International Airport and Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport in offering passengers a space to meditate and practice yoga. Evolution Yoga opened a yoga space on the second floor of Burlington International Airport, offering travelers a place to stretch out and relax before or between flights and enjoy […]

Smoking lounges at airports not going away

01/20/13
Smoking is still allowed in specific areas at the five major U.S. airports detailed in a recent report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that showed air pollution levels that are significantly higher than those at non-smoking airports. One of the airports — Denver International — did snuff three of its four smoking areas in […]

Guns at airports

01/17/13
(Guns at the Airport: TSA Catching Firearms at Record Pace is my first story for AOL Travel. An excerpt from the story is below. More to come. ) Firearms top the list of items passengers are prohibited from taking past airport security checkpoints and onto airplanes. Yet, during 2012 that didn’t stop travelers from trying […]

Chasing ICE at O’Hare Airport

01/11/13
It’s cold in Chicago this time of year and it may feel a bit colder at O’Hare International Airport when you take a few moments to view the new exhibit featuring a collection of 18 large-scale images of glaciers from the Extreme Ice Survey (EIS) project. “Ice: Portraits of Vanishing Glaciers”, located past security in […]

Tidbits for travelers: ways to interact – and to be alone

12/13/12
A little bit of this and that from airports and hotels here and there…. At the Dubai International Airport, there’s now an interactive virtual assistant on duty – the first of its kind, says Tensator, the company that created the first three non-interactive virtual assistants already on duty. The HD-projected virtual assistant greets passengers and […]
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