TWA Hotel
Hotel in Queens, New York (opened 2019) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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TWA Hotel is a hotel at John F. Kennedy International Airport in Queens, New York City, that opened on May 15, 2019.[3] It uses the head house of the TWA Flight Center, designed by the architect Eero Saarinen and completed in 1962, and two flanking buildings added for the hotel project. It contains a total of 512 rooms, as well as conference space, several restaurants, and an aviation history museum.
TWA Hotel | |
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Former names | TWA Flight Center |
General information | |
Status | Completed |
Architectural style | Midcentury modern[1] |
Town or city | New York City |
Coordinates | 40.64572°N 73.77768°W / 40.64572; -73.77768 |
Groundbreaking | December 15, 2016; 7 years ago (2016-12-15) |
Completed | Early 2019 |
Opened | May 15, 2019; 4 years ago (2019-05-15) |
Owner | MCR Hotels[2] |
Design and construction | |
Architect(s) | Eero Saarinen (original) Beyer Blinder Belle / Lubrano Ciavarra Architects (redesign) |
Other designers | Stonehill Taylor (hotel rooms) INC Architecture and Design (basement event space), Jaros, Baum & Bolles (MEP), Arup Group (Structural) |
Other information | |
Number of rooms | 512 |
Number of restaurants | 6 |
Website | |
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TWA Hotel was developed as part of a project to reuse the head house, which had stopped functioning as an air terminal in 2001. The site was developed by MCR Hotels, which operates middle-to-budget hotels in the United States. It is the only hotel operating within the boundaries of JFK Airport.