Inside JFK's abandoned TWA Terminal

[Homer]

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Right now, a team of digital scanning whizzes is back in their Florida lab, making a digital 3D model of the TWA Flight Center. Last week, while the staff and their equipment were hard at work recording every curve, bend, window, and facade of Eero Saarinen's 1962 terminal at John F. Kennedy International Airport, photographer Max Touhey was granted access. That much free time inside the historic, beloved landmark is hard to come by—especially with a camera in hand—given that it has been off limits to the public since 2001 and is set to undergo redevelopment into a boutique hotel.

Explore the TWA Terminal, a Pristine Time Capsule From 1962 - Love Letters - Curbed NY[/h]

 

[samh004]

I'm unsure how they're going to preserve and transform that into a hotel at the same time, but it is a beautiful design.

 

[moa999]

there have been so many plans for it

 

[Denali]

Shag'a'delic comes to mind but I like it, love all the curves and even the stairs and red. Definitely made me think of a gentler, more relaxed/patient time.

 

[Homer]

Imagine walking into that terminal for the first time, perhaps for your first ever flight. It would have looked like you had arrived in the future.

 

[moa999]

The original plan for the current Terminal 5 (JetBlue) was going to reuse the TWA terminal as part of the facility.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/22/nyregion/22trumpet.html?_r=0

Unfortunately this never happened - and various hotel projects have been rumoured since.