In about a year’s time, JFK Airport’s TWA Flight Center, a midcentury marvel, will be a property transformed. Its swooping, birdlike headhouse, designed by Finnish architect Eero Saarinen, will be the entry point for a 500-room hotel, with a whole host of amenities—bars, restaurants, even an observation deck—as part of the package.
But until the space opens to the public, fans of midcentury architecture (and the heyday of American aviation) will have to be content with peeks inside as they’re doled out by the developer, MCR, who took the project on in 2015. And today, another piece of the puzzle was revealed: MCR has unveiled a model room that showcases the design of the TWA Hotel—which, like everything else about the project, takes its inspiration from 1962, the year the headhouse opened.
“We are putting a box around 1962 for this hotel,” MCR head Tyler Morse said at an event launching the model, which is tucked away inside a nondescript hangar at JFK.
A rendering of the completed TWA Hotel. MCR Development
