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TWA Flight Center

Trans World Airlines Flight Center
Ehemaliges TWA-Terminal am John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York.JPG
The terminal's head house, designed by Eero Saarinen and opened May 1962
TWA Flight Center is located in New York
TWA Flight Center
TWA Flight Center is located in the US
TWA Flight Center
Location Terminal 5, John F. Kennedy International Airport, Queens, New York 11430
United States
Area 17.6 acres (7.1 ha)
Architect Eero Saarinen and Associates; et al.
Architectural style Neo-futuristic
NRHP Reference # 05000994
Significant dates
Added to NRHP September 7, 2005
Designated NYCL July 19, 1994
External images
TWA Flight Center: c. 1962, Departure & Arrival Board
TWA Flight Center: c. 1962, Departure & Arrival Corridor
TWA Flight Center: c. 1962, Interior View

The TWA Flight Center or Trans World Flight Center, opened in 1962 as the original terminal designed by Eero Saarinen for Trans World Airlines at New York City's John F. Kennedy International Airport. 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, which operates JFK Airport, had once intended the TWA Flight Center as a ceremonial entrance to the replacement terminal and has since announced plans to convert the original head house into a hotel, to open in 2018. The construction on the new hotel began in August, 2016.

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.

Noted architect Robert A. M. Stern 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".

Saarinen's original design featured a prominent wing-shaped thin shell roof over the headhouse (or main terminal); unusual tube-shaped departure-arrival corridors, originally wrapped in red carpet; and tall windows enabling expansive views of departing and arriving jets. The concrete shell, which inspired Saarinen to develop curved-edge ceramic tiles conforming to the curvilinear shapes. The design straddles Futurism, Googie and Fantastic architecture.


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