Art for Airports at Gatwick’s North Terminal International Departures
A 32-metre gigapixel panorama installed at Gatwick Airport’s North Terminal. Printed on a Tension Fabric System, the piece delivers museum-grade detail at airport scale. It’s sharp up close, and impactful right across the concourse. Produced as part of Gatwick’s £1bn transformation, the panorama comprises 10 fabric frames forming a seamless 32m × 5.4m artwork.
The Shard dominates London’s night skyline in this gigapixel panorama, captured from across the Thames. Many of London’s landmarks can be seen right across the image. At full zoom, the gigapixel reveals the minute details that make up the capital after dark. Windows glowing in offices, traffic threading the streets, and the energy of London at night. This gigapixel forms the source for the installation at Gatwick Airport, where its scale and clarity bring the drama of London’s skyline straight into the terminal.
The panorama is on a hoarding dividing the airport during renovations as part of the £1 billion investment plan for Gatwick. KeyMT Solutions lovingly produced the piece on a Tension Fabric System. The image is made up of 10 frames, each frame a single piece of fabric.
The image measures 32m (105′) long by about 5.4m (18′) tall. Viewers can really get lost in the detail as the resolution is so high, even at this scale.
Project specs:
- Scale: 32m (105′) wide × 5.4m (18′) high
- Location: International Departures, North Terminal (airside)
- Medium: Tension Fabric System, 10 fabric frames
- Use case: Renovation hoarding / airport art install
- Interactive source: View the original zoomable gigapixel
Art for Airports
Art for airports needs to be at an impressively large scale, so that it carries impact for people right across the airport. Furthermore, it must also be sufficiently high resolution for those right next to it to see sharp detail. Thus, gigapixel images are ideal because they fulfill this brief perfectly.
Please do get in touch with me if you’d like to discuss large-scale panoramas for your space. You can also view many more gigapixel cityscapes here.
FAQs about large scale images
We routinely produce panoramas at 10–40m. Gigapixel images I capture allow our clients to scale to massive sizes while retaining fine detail.
Tension fabric systems, backlit translights, and other large-format substrates depending on the site requirements.
Yes. We can recommend companies who specialise in large-scale artwork who we’ve worked with for many years, or we can work with your preferred supplier. From artwork prep, print/production liaison, proofing, right through to technical discussions with your fabricator/installer.
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