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4 giorni fa · The TWA Flight Center was designed for Trans World Airlines by Eero Saarinen and Associates starting in 1956. It was erected between 1959 and 1962, and it operated as an air terminal until 2001. It has a prominent wing-shaped thin shell roof supported by four Y-shaped piers.
28 ago 2024 · Eero Saarinen (born August 20, 1910, Kirkkonummi, Finland—died September 1, 1961, Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.) was a Finnish-born American architect who was one of the leaders in a trend toward exploration and experiment in American architectural design during the 1950s.
4 giorni fa · The building was constructed from 1961 to 1964 and was the only skyscraper designed by Eero Saarinen, who referred to the building as the "simplest skyscraper statement in New York". [2] The interior spaces and furnishings were designed by Saarinen, then Florence Knoll Bassett after the former's death.
1 giorno fa · The building covers 1.8 hectares (4.4 acres) of land and is 183 m (600 ft) long and 120 m (394 ft) wide at its widest point. It is supported on 588 concrete piers sunk as much as 25 m (82 ft) below sea level. The highest roof point is 67 metres above sea-level which is the same height as that of a 22-storey building.
3 giorni fa · Saarinen believed deeply in new technologies and experimented with several in Rochester, the most obvious being the vibrantly blue glass membrane that was also the world’s thinnest exterior wall...
4 set 2024 · Eero Saarinen Collection (MS 593). Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library.
16 ago 2024 · The story of modern architecture in St. Louis is complex and often contradictory. Beginning in the 1930s, internationally known architects such as Eric Mendelsohn, Eero Saarinen and Minoru Yamasaki — alongside important regional and national figures like Harris Armstrong, Charles Fleming...
