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The TWA Flight Center, or Trans World Airlines Flight Center, opened in 1962 as standalone terminal designed by Eero Saarinen for Trans World Airlines (TWA) at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK), then known as New York International Airport, Anderson Field, but commonly known as Idlewild. In 1969, the terminal received a new departure-arrival concourse and lounge, known as Flight Wing One, designed by Roche-Dinkeloo. Following TWA's financial deterioration and eventual…

Image from the front cover of the 1961 TWA Annual Report, showing Eero Saarinen's TWA Terminal, JFK Airport, New York Photo from the 6th Semi-Annual SFO Airline Collectibles Show

theimportanceofbeingmodernist: “Come Fly With Me: TWA Terninal by Eero Saarinen- Saarinen designed the Trans World Airlines terminal at New York’s JFK airport in 1956. The huge vaulted structure was...

With its sleek lines and organic, expressive form, the TWA Terminal at the JFK International Airport is still considered one of the most dynamic symbols of what Alice Friedman calls “American...

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While we are on the subject of vintage airliners and long before we were all herded onto planes like cattle, there existed a time when trave...

Sitting empty for more than a decade now, the TWA terminal at Idlewild Airport also known as John F. Kennedy International Airport was one of the masterpieces of the 60's architecture.

The ultimate icon of jet-age fabulosity, Eero Saarinen's TWA Flight Center demonstrates the confluence of an architectural Modernism divorced from its European leftist constituency and that most fleeting of American achievements, the postwar mass middle class. The situation sowed the seeds of its own ruin. In the short term, the increased acccess to air travel wrecked older tourist economies (like that of Atlantic City), contributing to the growing problems of urban economic stagnation while…