The TWA Flight Center Building - thin-shell structure by Eero Saarinen

The Union News restaurants coffee shop, TWA Flight Center, Idlewild, by Raymond Loewy. Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Gottscho-Schleisner Collection (reproduction number, e.g., LC-G612-T-45094)

TWA Flight Center was the original name for the Eero Saarinen designed Terminal 5 at Idlewild Airport — later called John F. Kennedy International Airport — for Trans World Airlines. The terminal had a futuristic air; The interior had wide glass windows that opened onto parked TWA jets; departing passengers would walk to planes through round, red-carpeted tubes. It was a far different structure and form than Saarinen's design for the current main terminal of Washington Dulles International Airport, which utilized mobile lounges to take passengers to airplanes. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2048x1536, 839 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Port Authority of New York and New Jersey John F. Kennedy International Airport Metadata This file contains additional... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2048x1536, 839 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Port Authority of New York and New Jersey John F. Kennedy International Airport Metadata This file contains additional... The worlds first double curvature lattice steel Shell by V.G.Shukhov (during construction), Vyksa near Nizhny Novgorod, 1897 Thin-shell structures can be defined as curved structures capable of transmitting loads in more than two directions to supports. ... Saarinens Gateway Arch frames The Old Courthouse, which sits at the heart of the city of Saint Louis, near the rivers edge. ... Image File history File links 5a28553r. ... Image File history File links 5a28553r. ... Raymond Loewy standing on one of his designs, the Pennsylvania Railroads S1 steam locomotive. ... Saarinens Gateway Arch frames The Old Courthouse, which sits at the heart of the city of Saint Louis, near the rivers edge. ... John F. Kennedy International Airport (IATA: JFK, ICAO: KJFK), originally known as Idlewild Airport, is an international airport located in Jamaica, Queens, in southeastern New York City about 12 miles (19 km) from Lower Manhattan. ... Trans World Airlines (IATA: TW, ICAO: TWA, and Callsign: TWA), commonly known as TWA, was an American airline company that was acquired by American Airlines in April 2001. ... Washington Dulles International Airport (IATA: IAD, ICAO: KIAD) serves the greater Washington, D.C./metropolitan area. ...

It was completed in 1962 and is the airport's most famous landmark (as well as being a National Historic Landmark). It was built before the age of terrorism and hijackings. Gates in the terminal were close to the street and this made it difficult to create centralized ticketing and security checkpoints. This building was the first airline terminal to have closed circuit television, a central p/a system, baggage carousels, an electronic schedule board and precursors to the now ubiquitous baggage weigh-in scales. JFK was rare in the airport industry for having company owned and designed terminals; other airline terminals were built by Eastern Airlines and American Airlines. Individually branded terminals included the Worldport of Pan American World Airways and the Sundrome of National Airlines. 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar). ... For the Chinese airline, see China Eastern Airlines. ... American Airlines (AA) is the largest airline in the world in terms of total passengers-miles transported [1] and fleet size[], and the second-largest airline in the world (behind Air France-KLM) in terms of total operating revenues[]. A wholly owned subsidiary of the AMR Corporation, the airline is... Worldport was the trademarked name for Delta Air Lines Terminal 3 at John F. Kennedy International Airport when it was owned by Pan American World Airways. ... Pan American World Airways, commonly known as Pan Am, was the principal international airline of the United States from the 1930s until its collapse in 1991. ... The Sundrome was the name for the terminal of National Airlines at John F. Kennedy International Airport. ... National Airlines was the name of two different airlines based in the United States. ...

Following American Airlines' buyout of TWA in 2001, Terminal 5 went out of service. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey had proposed converting the main portion of the building into a restaurant and conference center, but some architectural critics opposed this move. 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... John F. Kennedy International Airport (IATA: JFK, ICAO: KJFK), originally known as Idlewild Airport, is an international airport located in Jamaica, Queens, in southeastern New York City about 12 miles (19 km) from Lower Manhattan. ... Tolls collected at the Holland Tunnel and other crossings help fund the Port Authority. ... Toms Restaurant, a restaurant in New York made familiar by Suzanne Vega and the television sitcom Seinfeld A restaurant is an establishment that serves prepared food and beverages to order, to be consumed on the premises. ...

In December 2005, JetBlue, which occupies the adjacent Terminal 6, began construction of an expanded terminal facility, which will utilize the front portion of Saarinen's Terminal 5 as an entry point. The peripheral air-side parts of Terminal 5 have been demolished to make space for a mostly new terminal, which will have 26 gates and is expected to be complete by 2008. The building is under restoration and expansion by JetBlue. jetBlue Airways (NASDAQ: JBLU) is an American low-cost airline. ...

The TWA Flight Center Building - thin-shell structure by Eero Saarinen.

Besides being well-known to JFK passengers and architectural buffs, it was also the site of filming of the Steven Spielberg movie Catch Me if You Can. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1940x952, 1129 KB) Summary TWA Flight Center, soon to be part of a new Jetblue Terminal Photographed by Marc N. Weissman (2004) I, the creator of this work, hereby grant the permission to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1940x952, 1129 KB) Summary TWA Flight Center, soon to be part of a new Jetblue Terminal Photographed by Marc N. Weissman (2004) I, the creator of this work, hereby grant the permission to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under... The worlds first double curvature lattice steel Shell by V.G.Shukhov (during construction), Vyksa near Nizhny Novgorod, 1897 Thin-shell structures can be defined as curved structures capable of transmitting loads in more than two directions to supports. ... Saarinens Gateway Arch frames The Old Courthouse, which sits at the heart of the city of Saint Louis, near the rivers edge. ... Steven Allan Spielberg KBE (born December 18, 1946), commonly referred to as Steven Spielberg, is a highly famous, enormously influential, three-time Academy Award winning American film director and producer who is one of the most prominent figures from the world of cinema and whose very name has become synonymous... Catch Me If You Can is a 2002 motion picture set in the 1960s. ...

External links

• Port Authority Press Release on Renovation
• Galinsky Tour of Building, Visiting Information
• Boston Globe on Saarinen and the popularity of the terminal
• Case to Save Terminal in 2001
• Interior Pictures as of 1 Feb 07
• Close Up Interior Shots
• Interior and Exterior Shots of Terminal 5
• Terminal 5 TWA's Terminal 5 at New York's Kennedy International Airport