Once it’s ready for takeoff, Pittsburgh International Airport’s new terminal will serve customers in style with a wide-ranging collection of pieces produced mostly by local artists, from its support columns to its restroom tiles. Airport CEO Christina Cassotis put it simply during a tour Thursday morning of the terminal: “This whole building is art.”
It’s a true statement in a literal sense thanks to landscape architect Adam Kuby’s “Cross Currents,” a 57,000-square-foot sprawl of grids and interweaving threads meant to evoke geology and rivers cast into the terminal’s concrete exterior and adjacent parking lot.
Once inside, new arrivals won’t just be searching for their luggage in the baggage claim — they’ll also know what it’s thinking, courtesy of an installation by local artist John Peña.
Read more at Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
Originally published: September 4, 2025
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