The new designation for the Gander International Lounge was recently highlighted by Architectural Conservancy Ontario in their newsletter "Acorn in a Nutshell."
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"Though technically it's outside the province, we couldn't resist this good-news story of Gander, Newfoundland's spectacular time-capsule airport lounge—a swanky space straight out of Mad Men—receiving provincial heritage designation recently.
A symphony of mid-century design and art, the 1959 international lounge features terrazzo floors, panelled walls, sleek MCM furniture, floor-to-ceiling windows, and painter Kenneth Lockhead's 22-metre-wide "Flight and Its Allegories" mural. But aside from the many celebrities and heads of state that have crossed these floors in the airport's heyday, it was the 6000+ bewildered and frightened travellers who landed in the town of 10,000 without warning on 9/11 that guaranteed the site's legacy as a place of unusual compassion as well as Modernist beauty. The lounge re-opened for tours in 2022 and is now used as a community space.
Well done, Newfoundland and Labrador, and well done, Gander."- Architectural Conservancy Ontario
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