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JFK-TWA TERMINAL Mike/SAT

Apr 5, 2001
Parts of the TWA terminal at New York's JFK Airport are scheduled for demolition to make way for a larger facility. The swooping landmark terminal was designed in the early 1960s by the architect Eero Saarinen. United Airlines is investing USD$350 million to build a new terminal alongside the TWA terminal, known as the Saarinen Building. The new facility is scheduled for completion in 2005. Plans call for at least one and maybe two Saarinen "pod" areas - where passengers wait to enter walkways to their flights - to be demolished. Two arching tubes, connecting the Saarinen to the new United terminal, will be saved.
The doomed pod "is totally undersized and not equipped to handle modern jets or customers," said Greg Trevor, a spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which operates the airport. The Sourcebook of Contemporary North American Architecture once called the TWA terminal "one of the world's most dramatic airline terminals... Its curving contours uncannily suggest a bird in flight." The building was designated a city landmark in 1994, but the city landmarks commission can only suggest changes to the Port Authority, not demand them.
Trevor said the Port Authority "has every intention of preserving the integrity of the Saarinen Building and balancing that with the needs for a modern facility."
Ideas for the building have included use as a museum or restaurant, he said.

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