TWA Flight Center

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airport terminal historic building landmark modernist building transportation building

The TWA Flight Center is an iconic mid-20th-century modernist airport terminal at New York’s JFK Airport, designed by architect Eero Saarinen and celebrated for its futuristic, winged concrete form.

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Observed surface forms (2)

Surface form	Occurrences
TWA Flight Center, John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York	1
TWA Hotel	1

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	airport terminal ⓘ historic building ⓘ landmark ⓘ modernist building ⓘ transportation building ⓘ
airlineServed	Trans World Airlines ⓘ
architect	Eero Saarinen ⓘ John Dinkeloo ⓘ Kevin Roche ⓘ
architecturalStyle	Futurist architecture ⓘ Googie architecture ⓘ Modernism ⓘ
client	Trans World Airlines ⓘ
closedAsTerminal	2001 ⓘ
completionDate	1962 ⓘ
constructionStartDate	1956 ⓘ
country	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
currentUse	event venue ⓘ hotel lobby ⓘ restaurant space ⓘ
formerUse	airline passenger terminal ⓘ
hasArchitecturalFeature	expansive curtain walls ⓘ sunken lounge ⓘ sweeping curves ⓘ thin-shell concrete roof ⓘ tube-shaped departure corridors ⓘ winged roof ⓘ
hasFunction	airline terminal ⓘ event space ⓘ hotel lobby ⓘ
heritageDesignation	National Historic Landmark ⓘ National Register of Historic Places ⓘ surface form: National Register of Historic Places listing New York City Landmark ⓘ
heritageDesignationDate	1994 ⓘ 2005 ⓘ
influencedBy	aeronautical forms ⓘ
locatedIn	John F. Kennedy International Airport ⓘ New York City ⓘ surface form: New York New York City ⓘ Queens ⓘ United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
materialUsed	glass ⓘ reinforced concrete ⓘ
notableFor	futuristic design ⓘ iconic mid-20th-century modernist architecture ⓘ sculptural concrete shell ⓘ
openingDate	1962 ⓘ
operator	TWA Flight Center self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: TWA Hotel
partOf	John F. Kennedy International Airport ⓘ surface form: JFK Airport Terminal 5 complex
reopenedAsHotel	2019 ⓘ

Referenced by (6)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Terminal 5 → adjacentTo → TWA Flight Center ⓘ

Eero Saarinen → designed → TWA Flight Center ⓘ

this entity surface form: TWA Flight Center, John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York

AIA Twenty-five Year Award → hasRecipient → TWA Flight Center ⓘ

Eero Saarinen → knownFor → TWA Flight Center ⓘ

Eero Saarinen → notableWork → TWA Flight Center ⓘ

TWA Flight Center → operator → TWA Flight Center self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: TWA Hotel