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...Journey, created by Somerville artist and country singer Jane Goldman. It is the largest public art installation in New England and aims to beautify the airport while evoking "Boston." The project, set in the floor of the walkway between two moving sidewalks, depicts the ocean and marine animals in terrazzo, a hybridof concrete and mosaic. It moves from Terminal A to E, starting at each end with dark tones representing deep water, and grows more shallow, becoming a beach at the parking garage...
Goldman is most successful when she uses multiple shades of terrazzo to enliven her animals. One of the finest parts of the walkway is a school of fish, where she combines her interest in the rest of the structure, color and water effects and manipulation of scale. At a break in the automated walkway, she has a school of fish emerging as if from a cave, growing larger as they move away while turquoise currents of water swirl around them...
This time, as before, the problem lay beneath the airport's terrazzo floors, amid the underground warren of computers, conveyor belts, wires and thousands of motors that make up the airport's Disneyesque baggage system. As designed, 4,000 computer-guided fiber-glass carts, each carrying a single suitcase, will roll along 22 miles of serpentine steel tracks, delivering 60,000 bags an hour to and from dozens of distant gates and carrousels. The system employs electromagnetic motors attached to the tracks to power the carts, which are routed and monitored by banks of logic controllers, sensors and photocells...
Along the avenue, portals framed in warm black terrazzo give access to the internal galleries. Here, Aulenti has done marvels with adjustment of scale to image. Each space suits its contents, whether one is looking at Daumier's 36 clay caricature heads of the Celebrites du Juste- Milieu, no bigger than grenades and as lethal, whose passionate violations of the human face would so deeply affect Giacometti a century later, or at the large, suave, marmoreal forms of Ingres and early neoclassical Jean-Leon Gerome...
...shops. The rock garden and waterfall are stylized Japanese. The architecture is playful postmodern with the now standard affectations and allusions to Palladian renaissance. But Isozaki's stylishness is not random. Only a Japanese architect and his craftsmen could use materials as diverse as titanium-glazed tile, glass terrazzo, onyx, inlaid marble of different colors, and gold and silver doorknobs to create an effect of subtlety and restraint...