Covered elevated travelator are words to fill the heart with joy. Admittedly, we were flying from Luton (which currently has the builders in in grand style) but Venice Marco Polo airport still seemed a thing of bright glamour.
This is the covered elevated travelator to the dock. It only opened last year, which makes the planting all the more impressive; already shading out the sun.
Down below, the ceiling of the dock was modern glass roof, like the British Museum court; underneath, the planting featured glass chip and grasses, very modern, very serious, very durable.
This is the covered elevated travelator to the dock. It only opened last year, which makes the planting all the more impressive; already shading out the sun.
Down below, the ceiling of the dock was modern glass roof, like the British Museum court; underneath, the planting featured glass chip and grasses, very modern, very serious, very durable.
Upstairs in the food court, floor-to-ceiling water walls cool the air and feed blousy semitropical foliage in their base planters, which are broad-walled in the modern style, meaning people can sit on the planters' edge, almost among the plants, cooled by the leaves.
The true test of an indoor space's greenness is the Centre MK test: are there birds? I did not see any wild birds (ucelli) in Venice airport. But we saw a colossal and bizarre insect, and it's early days yet. Where insects fly, birds follow.
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