AIRPORT INTERIORS
Virgin Atlantic JFK Clubhouse
New York, NY
Referencing the golden age of airline travel and the Mad Men aesthetic of this era, this award winning airport lounge design at JFK is an immersive experience and a tour de force branded environment. Custom lighting, custom furniture and custom wallpaper create a bespoke, enveloping spaces includes a lounge, bar, full service restaurant, spa and other traveler amenities. Flying was never sexier!
Virgin Atlantic Newark Clubhouse
Newark, NJ
The infinity mirror crystalline centerpiece, lit by a faceted skylight above, is the anchor for a series of pinwheeling spaces. The lounge design, restaurant design, bar design, coffee bar design all build from this focal point and a narrative inspired by downtown New York culture, using quotidian and bespoke materials, to create a Virgin Atlantic branded environment at this award winning airline lounge.
Virgin Atlantic LAX Clubhouse
Los Angeles, CA
Golden sunset vibes and California aesthetics inspired a sculpted Corian wall extending along one side of the award winning airline lounge. The copper inset reflects the open views, bringing California sunshine directly into the space. The Clubhouse deign concept continues with a sculpted membrane ceiling and skylights, custom couches, custom bar and custom counter recalling the smooth contours of California mountains, deserts, surf. surfboards and beach bodies.
JFK T5 Concept
New York, NY
We reimagined the entire passenger journey, to provide an elevated and inspiring experience. Raising the TSA/security onto a sculpted new mezzanine opens views between the departure hall and the terminal, connecting the landside departure hall and the revitalized shopping, dining and waiting areas in the terminal.
Airport Architects
Slade Architecture is a registered minority-owned design firm with a deep interest in airport architecture and interiors. Our passion is to deliver top-tier experiences in interiors that are bespoke, unique, unforgettable. Our firm mission to use design to improve social relationships and create narratives is ideally suited to airport design.
We design airport interiors that become part of the fond memories of the journey - not the pinch point one must “get through”. Our approach to architecture and interior design of airports merges an appreciation of the best of the airport locale with a celebration of the wanderlust for travel. The imperative to create sustainably designed, safe and stress-reducing interiors that are convenient for the traveler and the staff is the baseline in airport design. We want the enjoyment of travel to start right at the airport. The best airport interior designs merge hospitality, retail, restaurant and residential design in a seamless and unique environment that caters to the diverse needs of the travelers and staff.
Airport design that delivers an engaging and memorable experience
Aviation interiors from airport lounges, to restaurants, hold rooms and retail must be configured in a welcoming and easy to navigate way. In aviation spaces, the users are predominantly flow driven. An airport interior has a very specific destination-driven choreography for the travelers. However, while visitor journey is relatively fixed compared to other interior spaces, the user group is much more heterogeneous than one finds in a typical architectural project. The mix of ages, group structures, purpose of the visit is more diverse than we see in most architectural typologies. As a result, the spaces and support services must be delivered with unparalleled clarity and intuitive functionality that communicates across all user groups. Typical visitors range from returning or deploying soldiers, vacationing retirees, school children in a class, young families, and business teams to name a few. The diverse users have a wide range of needs and a successful airport interior design caters to all these and delivers an engaging and memorable experience.
Create an authentic and highly-branded airport lounge interior
In our Virgin Atlantic Airlines Upper Class lounges in New York, Los Angeles and Newark, we created unique airport lounge interiors that resonate authentically with their respective locations and also the cheeky Virgin Brand and the pleasure of travel.
Our ability to create bespoke site-specific lounge interiors that are also highly branded sets our work apart. Many of our other airport architecture projects are confidential and cannot be shared online. Our work designing impactful interiors in hospitality, retail, residential and restaurant environments allows us to weave together all the insight from these experiences into airport interior designs that create memories.
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