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United States historic place
The TWA Flight Center, also known as the Trans World Flight Center, was an airport terminal at New York City's John F. Kennedy International Airport, now used by the TWA Hotel. The terminal, which opened in 1962, was designed for Trans World Airlines by Eero Saarinen. The original design featured a prominent wing-shaped thin shell roof over the head house, or main terminal; unusual tube-shaped red-carpeted departure-arrival corridors; and tall windows enabling expansive views of departing and arriving jets. The design straddles the Futurist, Neo-futurist, Googie and Fantastic architectural styles.Although portions of the original complex have been demolished, the Saarinen-designed head house has been renovated and is partially encircled by a replacement terminal building, which was completed in 2008. Together, the old and new buildings make up JetBlue Airways' JFK operations and have been known collectively since 2008 as Terminal 5 or simply T5. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ), which operates JFK Airport, had once intended the TWA Flight Center as a ceremonial entrance to the replacement terminal. In 2016, the Port Authority started converting the original head house into the TWA Hotel, which opened in 2019. Both the interior and the exterior were declared a New York City Landmark in 1994. In 2005, the terminal was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Architect Robert A. M. Stern has called the TWA Flight Center the "Grand Central of the jet age". The pragmatic new encircling terminal has been called "hyper-efficient" and a "monument to human throughput". .... Learn more at Wikipedia
| Name | TWA Flight Center |
|---|---|
| Long Name | TWA Flight Center, NY, USA |
| Region | New York |
| Country | United States |
| Map | Open Map |
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