If the design, by the firm of Tippets Abbott McCarthy and Stratton, wasn’t as sophisticated as Eero Saarinen’s TWA Terminal a few hundred yards away—surely one of the great buildings of its era, transportation hub or otherwise—the Pan Am terminal was the second-best piece of architecture at JFK, and in some ways it captured the feeling of the moment more directly. — vanityfair.com
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It's time for Starbucks to step in with their flagship establishment!
Check the link below to see how they saved a scaled-down version of this building in St. Louis
http://nextcity.org/daily/entry/how-two-st.-louis-landmarks-were-spared-the-wrecking-ball
If it is only a few hundred yards away from TWA terminal, why not find some way to link the two as one functioning entity? I'm certain that through a serious and open competition, there are enough very talented minds to find a workable and economic solution that improves JFK on the whole. Hotels? I think a museum of commercial aviation could be a wonderful thing that hundreds of bored passengers in long layovers, delays and cancellations could enjoy. The New York City has the 2nd busiest air system in the world after London and there is a fantastic story it could tell.
The NYC Pan American terminal was also the site of the then world largest sculpture, a 220-foot (67 m), 12-piece "Zodiac Screen", then the largest sculpture in the world, commissioned by Pan-American Airlines for its terminal at John F. Kennedy International Airport, and now owned and stored by the New York Port Authority.
http://www.hebaldart.net/zodiac.html
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_FhVR3DNGScA/TGWYDukbRxI/AAAAAAAAEIA/LTfhMy838gU/s1600/2841122.jpg
eric chavkin
The artist is Milton Hebald. Anthony Burgess considered Hebald the 'worlds greatest living sculpture'. He lives in Sherman Oaks and is still working at 95.
It is beautiful, simple, and evokes the exact emotion it's supposed to - that of flight. It should be saved. Both TWA and Pan Am Worldport at JFK are the best buildings there. The new(er) ones are not iconic and never will be.
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