Trans World Airline Terminal (TWA Terminal), (Queens, NY, USA); 1962; Post Modernism and Pluralism 1965-Today


Trans World Airline Terminal (TWA Terminal), (Queens, NY, USA); 1962; Post Modernism and Pluralism 1965-Today

Eero Saarinen

Concrete
Open interior, wing like concrete shell
Not only a functional terminal but also a monument to the airline and aviation
TWA asked Saarinen to build this building 1954 expand Idlewild airport (JFK now) as people started to travel more. The port authority wanted to make a new terminal
TWA asked Eero Saarinen in 1955
TWA decided to let middle class people start flying – took and expensive luxury option and make it accessible to everyone in middle class
Sometimes TWA price reduction was cheaper than the train fares

He ultimately proposed a symmetrical arrangement of four curved, concrete shell roof segments, the curves of which flowed seamlessly from the piers that supported them. Each of the four roof structures was separated from its neighbors by narrow skylights, with a circular pendant occupying the center point in which all four meets.[1]

Even though Symbol of a bird flying – airplane, Saarinen inspiration was in the hollowed-out rind of grape fruit he pressed down in the middle

Exterior was carried through its interior
The vault of roof shell allows for a spacious and free flow interior layout
Curved staircases
Columns supporting upper walkways
Melded into both the found and the ceilings
People entered the space under a cantilevered marquee

Budget was a lot $9 million to $15 million open in 1962 after E passed away

The terminal can’t catch up jet airliner, so they had to closed down in 2001. It was survived and also stated as united states national registers of historic places in 2005
Currently renovating to serve as an airport hotel




[1] https://www.archdaily.com/788012/ad-classics-twa-flight-center-eero-saarinen

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