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TWA Terminal
The TWA Terminal was designed by Eero Saarinen and completed in 1962 for the airline TWA at the New York City’s Idlewild Airport (later renamed John F. Kennedy International Airport.)
The building’s undulating shape was meant to evoke the excitement of high speed flight. Its curvilinear forms were used inside and out—and even the terminal’s smallest interior details, lounges, chairs, signs, and telephone booths were designed to harmonize with the curving “gull winged” shell so often depicted as an emblem of the modern 1960s. When opened, the TWA Terminal was heralded as a remarkable design achievement, and 40 years later it continues to be cited by the national and international architectural community for its importance in the modern design movement. The terminal building, which is largely intact, is a designated New York City landmark, a designated City interior landmark, and is eligible for listing on the State and National Registers of Historic Places.
‘...a building in which the architecture itself would express the drama and specialness and excitement of travel... a place of movement and transition... The shapes were deliberately chosen in order to emphasize an upward-soaring quality of line. We wanted an uplift.’ -Eero Saarinen
Saarinen died in 1961, a year before the building was completed.
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