John F. Kennedy International Airport will debut 18 public art commissions in Terminal 6, opening in 2026
If you touch down at John F. Kennedy International Airport in 2026, you will be welcomed by large-scale glass mosaic floor artworks, or, alternatively, a dangling sculpture fixed to the ceiling. Terminal 6, a new $4.2 billion wing of JFK Airport, is slated to open in two years, and on display alongside a new sleek arrivals plaza and 1.2-million-square-foot terminal will be the works of 18 contemporary artists, including Charles Gaines, Kambui Olujimi, and Nina Chanel Abney.
Corgan designed the exterior and interiors of the terminal and Stantec is working alongside the firm on the interiors. Corgan cited dance as one of the building’s key inspirations. At the entrance will extend an “ethereal oculus,” the result of parametric modeling, while the cantilevered roof is described as a “grand crescendo.”
