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TWA Flight Center

Saarinen, Eero
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URI
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/122879
Date
1956-1962
Description
View into the waiting lounge on the east side; With engineer Boyd G. Anderson. TWA Flight Center was the original name for the Eero Saarinen designed Terminal 5 at Idlewild Airport --later called John F. Kennedy International Airport-- for Trans World Airlines. The terminal had a futuristic air; the interior had wide glass windows that opened onto parked TWA jets; departing passengers would walk to planes through round, red-carpeted tubes. It was completed in 1962 and is the airport's most famous landmark (as well as being a National Historic Landmark). Gates in the terminal were close to the street and this made it difficult to create centralized ticketing and security checkpoints. This building was the first airline terminal to have closed circuit television, a central PA system, baggage carousels, an electronic schedule board and precursors to the now ubiquitous baggage weigh-in scales. JFK was rare in the airport industry for having company owned and designed terminals. The building is under restoration and expansion by JetBlue. Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page (accessed 1/10/2008)
Type of Work
passenger terminal; airport
Subject
architectural exteriors, contemporary (1960 to present), Transportation, Modernist
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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