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    Eero Saarinen was a Finnish-American architect known for his neo-futuristic style. He designed the Gateway Arch in St. Louis and the iconic TWA Terminal at JFK Airport. For the TWA Terminal, commissioned in 1956, Saarinen sought to capture the "spirit of flight" through sweeping concrete curves that flow throughout the interior and resemble wings. The modern structure uses reinforced concrete, steel, and angled glass walls to emulate the experience of flying and viewing planes from the air.

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    Eero Saarinen was a Finnish-American architect known for his neo-futuristic style. He designed the Gateway Arch in St. Louis and the iconic TWA Terminal at JFK Airport. For the TWA Terminal, commissioned in 1956, Saarinen sought to capture the "spirit of flight" through sweeping concrete curves that flow throughout the interior and resemble wings. The modern structure uses reinforced concrete, steel, and angled glass walls to emulate the experience of flying and viewing planes from the air.

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    Eero Saarinen was a Finnish-American architect known for his neo-futuristic style. He designed the Gateway Arch in St. Louis and the iconic TWA Terminal at JFK Airport. For the TWA Terminal, commissioned in 1956, Saarinen sought to capture the "spirit of flight" through sweeping concrete curves that flow throughout the interior and resemble wings. The modern structure uses reinforced concrete, steel, and angled glass walls to emulate the experience of flying and viewing planes from the air.

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    Eero Saarinen was a Finnish-American architect known for his neo-futuristic style. He designed the Gateway Arch in St. Louis and the iconic TWA Terminal at JFK Airport. For the TWA Terminal, commissioned in 1956, Saarinen sought to capture the "spirit of flight" through sweeping concrete curves that flow throughout the interior and resemble wings. The modern structure uses reinforced concrete, steel, and angled glass walls to emulate the experience of flying and viewing planes from the air.

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    The passage provides details about the life and career of Finnish American architect Eero Saarinen. It focuses on describing his design of the TWA Terminal at JFK airport in New York, highlighting the building's flowing curved forms, use of concrete and glass, and intent to evoke the feeling of flight.

    Eero Saarinen designed the TWA Terminal at JFK airport in New York, also known as the Trans World Flight Center, to capture the spirit of flight.

    For the TWA Terminal, Saarinen used concrete and glass as primary building materials. The concrete roof is curved to resemble wings of a bird in flight. Steel reinforcement provides structural support within the concrete panels and for the large tilted glass walls.

    Eero Saarinen

    •Eero Saarinen (August 20, 1910 – September 1, 1961) was a 20th-century Finnish
    American Architect and industrial designer noted for his neo-futuristic style.

    •Saarinen is known for designing the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri.

    •Saarinen began studies in sculpture at the Académie de la Grande


    Chaumière in Paris, France, in September 1929.

    •He then went on to study at the Yale School of Architecture, completing his
    studies in 1934.

    • Subsequently, he toured Europe and North Africa for a year and returned
    for a year to his native Finland.

    •Saarinen first received critical recognition, while still working for his father,
    for a chair designed together with Charles Eames for the "Organic Design in
    Home Furnishings" competition in 1940, for which they received first prize
    TWA Terminal / Trans World Flight
    Center/Kennedy Airport, New York,
    BY
    Eero Saarinen
    •Architects :- Eero Saarinen

    •Location :- Jamaica, Queens, NY, United States

    •Project Year:- 1962

    •Style :- Modern

    •Materials :- Conrete and Glass

    •When Saarinen was


    commissioned in 1956, the client
    wanted this building to capture
    the "spirit of flight," and as
    visitors rush to make it to their
    flight there is no choice but to
    admire the swooping concrete
    curves that embraced flyers into
    the jet age.
    •In order to capture the concept of flight, Saarinen used curves to
    create spaces that flowed into one another.

    •The exterior's concrete roof imitates a bird in flight with two massive
    "wings.“

    • The interior consists of a continuous ribbon of elements, all whisking


    themselves in from the exterior, so that ceilings continously run into walls
    and those walls become floors.
    •All the curves, all the spaces and elements right down to the shape of the
    signs, display boards, railings and check-in desks were to be of a matching
    nature.

    •They wanted passengers passing through the building to experience a fully-


    designed environment, in which each part arises from another and
    everything belongs to the same formal world.

    •The structure consists of a


    shell of reinforced concrete
    with four segments that
    extend outward from a
    central point.

    •The concrete "wings" then


    unfold on either side of the
    exterior, preparing for flight.
    Within the concrete, the
    structure is reinforced with a
    web of steel.
    •The large panels of glass
    beneath the concrete are also
    supported with steel, and have a
    contemporary purple-tint.

    • These glass walls are


    tilted towards the exterior at an
    angle as they reach the ceiling,
    as if intended for viewers to
    imagine looking out from a
    plane to the earth below.

    •These windows also highlight


    the purpose of the structure,
    providing views of departing
    and arriving jets.
    •Seven years after its completion, a new departure-arrival concourse and
    lounge were added to the terminal.
    •The TWA Terminal became an official landmark in 1994, voted on by the
    Landmarks Preservation Commission.

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