Elmira Corning Airport Passenger Lounge and Restaurant Renovation

The Elmira-Corning Regional Airport Terminal, originally designed and built in 1958-60, underwent significant expansion in 1988-90. In 2004, J-S&A was commissioned to completely redesign and rebuild the airport restaurant and adjacent passenger lounge. New features include a brushed metal countertop that echoes the shape and detailing of an airplane wing, and floor lighting that harkens to runway lights. The theme is further enhanced by exhibits on loan from the region’s three national museums of flight. A glass case serves as both a partition and an interest area, housing a wooden aircraft wing (without fabric skin), on loan from the nearby Glenn Curtiss Museum of Early Flight. Overhead, a half-scale model of a glider is suspended, on loan from the National Soaring Museum, as well as an aircraft engine from the Wings of Eagles Discovery Center (formerly the National Warplane Museum). The restaurant can efficiently serve more than 350 people at once, which means that it can serve as a destination for banquets and meetings, as well as serving passengers.