Signature Flight

Boston Logan International Airport | 2006

Boston is host to Signature Flight’s flagship facility serving private and corporate jets. As part of Massport’s requirement that all new facilities be LEED certified, this project is the USGBC’s first certified fixed base of operations (FBO) type. KMDG made a successful case for the inclusion of a landscape ‘waiting space’ to be carved out of the overly paved and impervious ground plane at the airport. The resulting forecourt garden is united with the interior architectural spaces by a wood scrim-wall that frames the New England inspired landscape.

Here, that language is distilled to a simple aspen grove underplanted with fern and groundcover, a lawn that allows functions and press events, and a zone of ornamental grasses, symbolic of the salt marshes along the airport’s coastal perimeter.

Client
Signature Flight
Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport)

Design Team
Chan Krieger Sieniewicz (now nbbj), architect
Schenkel Shultz Architects, architect
KMDG, landscape architect

Awards      
2009 Boston Society of Landscape Architects, Merit Award
2008 Boston Society of Architects, Honor Award
2007 AIA New England, Merit Award

Status
Complete

Photo Credits
Christian Phillips Photography