TWA Flight Center

Queens, United States

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The TWA Flight Center at John F. Kennedy International Airport in Queens is a striking modernist terminal designed by Eero Saarinen and completed in 1962. Its most distinctive feature is the headhouse, a thin-shell concrete structure with a dramatic roof shaped like a pair of bird's wings, supported by four Y-shaped piers that create an open, three-level interior flooded with natural light. The building originally extended to detached "flight wings" via two red-carpeted tube corridors, though these were demolished in the 2000s during the development of Terminal 5. After operating as an airport terminal for four decades and serving later as an entrance to JetBlue's Terminal 5, the headhouse was repurposed as part of the TWA Hotel in 2019, flanked by new hotel towers. The building and its interiors are New York City designated landmarks and appear on the National Register of Historic Places.