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Site
22-acres, adjacent to the TWA international terminal by Eero Saarinen (1962)
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New York, New YorkGross Floor Area
352,000 s/f Client
Originally Port Authority of New York and New Jersey; subsequently National Airlines, Miami, FloridaTime Frame
Planning: 4/62–
(competition completed)
Construction: 10/66–
Completion: 10/70 |
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National Airlines Terminal
(renamed TWA Terminal Annex) |
| JFK International Airport, New York, New York
Completed 1970 |
2-story airline passenger terminal
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Click on image to enlarge This airline terminal, the winner of a national design competition, was undertaken to complete Idlewild (now JFK International) Airport. In planning, form and structure it was designed to provide unique solutions to congestion, particularly vehicular traffic, which, by 1960, had
already become the most critical problem to confront airport planning. Unlike other terminals, where automobile circulation had traditionally been confined to the front of the building and baggage movement to the back, circulation was facilitated by divided roadways to the virtual elimination of surface congestion. With a drop-off platform in front of the terminal and a pick-up platform at back, curbside access was effectively doubled. (Baggage movement was relocated underground).
The terminal itself was designed for simplicity, restraint and high visibility amid the airport's clutter of unrelated, assertive buildings. Using glass as a primary building material — a first in U.S. airport construction — the terminal consists of two rectangular pavilions for arrivals and departures interconnected with two cylindrical satellites for boarding / deplaning. The main (departures) pavilion is surrounded by
double-height window walls hung from a space frame and supported by concrete columns outside the building. The open solution allowed great internal flexibility and proved readily adaptable, while the terminal was under construction, to modifications required by the introduction of 747 jumbo jets. |
| Departure Pavilion
60,630 s/f; 43'-0" high (2 floors above grade, 1 below) Arrival Pavilion
68,460 s/f; 21'-10" high (2 floors above grade, 1 below)Satellites
60,840 s/f; 25'-6" high (2 floors above grade, 1 below) Basement Tunnels
162,400 s/f |
| 1972 |
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| City Club of New York: Albert S. Bard Award |
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Concrete Industry Board Award |
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I. M. Pei & Partners services |
| Complete Architectural Services |
| Amman and Whitney, New York, NY |
| Seelye, Stevenson, Value and Knecht, New York, NY |
| Travers Associates, Clifton, NJ |
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