With the addition of two new wings, Eero Saarinen’s T.W.A. Flight Center at Kennedy Airport — a lyrical landmark in search of an everyday purpose — might finally reopen to the traveling public for the first time since Trans World Airlines went out of business in 2001.
The six-story wings, shoehorned into a crescent-shaped area between the T.W.A. Flight Center and JetBlue’s Terminal 5, would be part of a 505-room hotel built by MCR Development. Its holdings include the High Line Hotel in Chelsea, which occupies part of the General Theological Seminary campus.
Pending approvals, construction of the T.W.A. Flight Center Hotel, as it would be called, is to begin next year. It would open in 2018. The budget is roughly $250 million, including a $65 million renovation of the Saarinen building.
6 comments:
I like the style of the building. Reminds me of all the Jet Age history I learned as a child.
I think this would be a tremendous convenience especially if the hotel would HOLD some rooms for travelers whose flights are cancelled, and they need somewhere to stay overnight. This way, they would not even have to leave the airport to find lodging....
That Jackson Heights Johnny is a good idea.
They will have to make this structure extra sound-proof if guests are to get a good night's sleep.
I think this would be a tremendous convenience especially if the hotel would HOLD some rooms for travelers whose flights are cancelled, and they need somewhere to stay overnight. This way, they would not even have to leave the airport to find lodging....
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The Hotel isn't going to hold shit unless the airlines pay for the holds. And as for that, good luck. This is a "boutique" hotel, and the rates will be above what the airlines will be willing to pay to put delayed travelers for the night. No, they will still be bussed out to a motor-inn somewhere in Jamaica.
It is a genuinely pretty building from the outside.
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