Pittsburgh Airport

Pittsburgh Airport

Application: Interiors

Building Type: Transportation

This multifaceted 70,000 square-foot public art installation in terrazzo re-configured the circulation spaces of the central concourse while beautifully reflecting the heritage and vibrancy of the region.

The artist, Clayton Merrell of Carnegie Melon, created the flight-inspired design, “The Sky Beneath Our Feet,” to give pedestrians a bird’s eye view of the vast blue dome of the sky, intersected with historic aircraft and flight contrails.

Roman Mosaic helped bring the artist’s vision to life, meticulously laying the five floor murals, spanning up to 100 feet. Each presents intricate silhouettes of the iconic local skyline in exacting authenticity and rich detail. The murals contain as many as 600 individually cut pieces. The free flowing clouds required approximately 15,000 feet of strips to be bent by hand onsite using Creative Edge’s StencilTek.

Approximately 70,000 square-feet of templates were water-jet cut for the divider strip layout and then laid out along control lines in the terminal floor to ensure an exact duplication of the pattern, lining up each section through the 60 distinct phases of the work. This project won the prestigious NTMA Job of the Year in 2016