Winnipeg will have a new, bigger airport terminal by 2010. That's good news for air travellers but possibly bad news for two murals.
The old terminal building will likely be demolished, and murals by John Graham and Eli Bornstein could go down with it.
Graham's Northern Lights (above) and Bornstein's Structurist Relief in Fifteen Parts were commissioned for the terminal in the early 1960s, when it was being built.
A spokesperson for the Winnipeg Airports Authority told me this week that demolishing the old building is in the authority's long-term plan but a committee is "looking at options for the art."
In short, the building's fate is more or less sealed but the art could be saved.
The Heritage Canada Foundation includes the old terminal in its Top Ten Most Endangered Places List.
