Eero Saarinen’s TWA Flight Center at JFK Airport—an airport terminal converted into a hotel—is an inspired exercise in functional beauty
Eero Saarinen’s TWA Flight Center—once an airport terminal and now a hotel—is an inspired exercise in functional beautyUniversal Images Group via Getty ImagesYou cannot appreciate a work of art when under stress or in a rush, and in an airport you are both. Can you draw a picture of the last terminal you flew out of? But there is one, officially dedicated 60 years ago, whose design is so strong and bold as to startle even the most agitated passenger.
It takes the form of a mighty predatory bird, wings upraised and talons extended as if to seize its prey—the departing passenger. The talons are actually buttresses and, like the roof they carry, are of smoothly curving concrete.
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