Eero Saarinen, born seven years before Finland declared its independence from Russia, brought the ethos of his home country with him when his family emigrated to the United States in 1923. He went on to study art and architecture in Paris and at Yale, and eventually became a world-famous modernist architect. Today one of Saarinen's masterpieces-the long-vacant TWA Flight Center at the John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York-is being meticulously restored and expanded to become the new TWA Hotel. Designed to capture the romance and glamour of the Jet Age, the hotel will open sometime next year. Richard Southwick, FAIA, director of historic preservation at Beyer Blinder Belle, the restoration architects for the project, shares some details about the project and how it celebrates Saarinen's midcentury modern vision.
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