Frozen in time: Inside the space age TWA terminal at JFK built in 1962 that is soon to be turned into a boutique hotel www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-3150949/Frozen-time-Inside-space-age-TWA-terminal-JFK-built-1962-soon-turned-boutique-hotel.html ~ It's an airport that's been frozen in time, with bold architecture that must have seemed space age at the time. These photographs, which originally appeared in Curbed, of the TWA Terminal at JFK offer a glimpse of the golden age of travel, transporting guests back to what travellers would have experienced in 1962. Photographer Max Touhey was granted access to capture the closed-to-the-public building just ahead of its transformation into a boutique hotel. The flight centre was the last project of architect Eero Saarinen, the Finnish-American designer known for his love of curves, and was completed posthumously in 1962, for the now defunct Trans World Airlines (TWA). The futuristic building was designed to replicate a bird's spread wings mid flight in reflection of the company's directive, which they stated was to 'capture the spirit of flight.' Construction on the airport hub lasted six years starting in 1956, and upon completion it was celebrated as an architectural masterpiece that represented a shift in air travel in which middle-class Americans could now afford to fly. 'We 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,' Mr Saarinen had said about his philosophy behind the design.

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