{"id":2568,"date":"2016-12-29T15:23:58","date_gmt":"2016-12-29T15:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/designtel.co\/?p=2568"},"modified":"2016-12-31T18:30:54","modified_gmt":"2016-12-31T18:30:54","slug":"twa-terminal-interior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/design.tel\/twa-terminal-interior\/","title":{"rendered":"TWA Terminal (Interior)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saarinen&#8217;s Trans World Flight Center was commissioned first and foremost to capture the \u2018spirit of flight\u2019 and it most certainly provided an entirely-designed environment that welcomes arrivals and departures with all the force and dynamic optimism of the space age. A reinforced shell with curvilinear concrete throughout, design elements extend from walls to floors \u2013 to displays, railings, desks and more. Glazing cuts at an angle from the shell, divided by thin steel frames that force the viewer to look out and down \u2013 as if already airborne. Saarinen passed away before the Terminal was completed, and the original multi-terminal design airline-delineated of JFK proved more whimsical than optimal and Saarinen\u2019s masterpiece was closed in 2001. Restorations and additions have since been proposed \u2013 with the structure\u2019s fate still undecided.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saarinen&#8217;s Trans World Flight Center was commissioned first and foremost to capture the \u2018spirit of flight\u2019 and it most certainly provided an entirely-designed environment that welcomes arrivals and departures with all the force and dynamic optimism of the space age. A reinforced shell with curvilinear concrete throughout, design elements extend from walls to floors \u2013 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2569,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2568"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}