Less than a year after groundbreaking, the hotel development at the former TWA terminal at JFK Airport has topped out and is on track to open in early 2019 as the appropriately named TWA Hotel, JFK’s only on-airport hotel.
The TWA terminal was originally designed by the iconic architect Eero Saarinen in 1962 and the new project is from developer MCR and Morse. Once complete, the hotel will preserve Saarinen’s terminal, which will be repurposed as a world class hotel with 505 guestrooms, 50,000 square feet of state of the art meeting and event space, and a variety of high quality food, beverage and retail options.
The TWA terminal was originally designed by the iconic architect Eero Saarinen in 1962 and the new project is from developer MCR and Morse. Once complete, the hotel will preserve Saarinen’s terminal, which will be repurposed as a world class hotel with 505 guestrooms, 50,000 square feet of state of the art meeting and event space, and a variety of high quality food, beverage and retail options.
The development includes two low-rise hotel structures set back on either side of the terminal, designed to defer to the historic landmark. Saarinen’s TWA Flight Center terminal building will serve as the hotel lobby; at 200,000 square feet the lobby is thought to be the largest hotel lobby in the world.
The hotel will also house a Jet Age and mid-century modern museum that will chronicle the mid-century modern design era and the rise of the Jet Age, exhibiting mid-century furniture, TWA uniforms, David Klein destination posters, inflight amenities and other TWA memorabilia—much of which has been donated by the TWA employee community.
The hotel will also house a Jet Age and mid-century modern museum that will chronicle the mid-century modern design era and the rise of the Jet Age, exhibiting mid-century furniture, TWA uniforms, David Klein destination posters, inflight amenities and other TWA memorabilia—much of which has been donated by the TWA employee community.
“Since the TWA Hotel groundbreaking with Governor Cuomo less than one year ago, our team has been hard at work breathing new life into Eero Saarinen’s TWA Flight Center terminal and developing one of the most iconic hotels in the world,” said Tyler Morse, CEO of MCR and Morse Development.
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