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TWA Flight Center
The TWA Flight Center is a building at John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) in the New York City borough of Queens. Designed by Eero Saarinen and Associates for Trans World Airlines (TWA) and completed in 1962, the building operated as an airport terminal for four decades before being adaptively repurposed as part of the TWA Hotel. The building's main section, the headhouse, is flanked by two wings added for…
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