Swiss Plant Art

The Zurich airport is one of my favorites in Europe and the international side is probably the nicest with sleek black leather seats, nice little cafes and exposed concrete beams. But the most intriguing and fun is that they use plants as their decor while perhaps even enlightening the weary traveler about vines from other climates such as Chile or Malaysia.

Frosted glass keeps the plants themselves semi hidden so that it looks more like art.

There were several glass rooms, that spanned 3 stories in height, and contained vines from around the world and all self-contained so that the temperature could be maintained to that of the plants' native climate.

But then strips of clear glass reveal the plants true identity.

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Comment by jennifer Bloch on December 29, 2008 at 2:25pm: Cool. Enroute to Lausanne I stopped in Frankfurt. The Frankfurt airport has something similar. The backlit image is lush and appealing in the enclosed interior. A bench constructed of hardwood/decking like surrounds the image and people are drawn to the artifice of nature there, finding some sort of connection and place deep in the terminals.
I'm fond of the use of plants as a design material in Lausanne near Flon Station.
Bamboo colonnade, lit at night with led's,
a tree like structure for wisteria,
and an inhabitable space constructed of chain link fence as a support for vines, lit at night becomes an impromptu chill-out lounge in the middle of the city with movable bar tables, stools and potted bamboo.