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🏩TWA Hotel🏩
Saarinen’s concrete structure,
w its soaring, winglike vaulted roof,
its huge fields of glass +
its thrilling interior curves, cantilevers + airy mezzanines,
is 1 of the great buildings of the past century.
Power of a poetic modernism, full of whimsy + romance.
Saarinen’s concrete structure,
w its soaring, winglike vaulted roof,
its huge fields of glass +
its thrilling interior curves, cantilevers + airy mezzanines,
is 1 of the great buildings of the past century.
Power of a poetic modernism, full of whimsy + romance.
🏩TWA Hotel🏩
~Open 4 Business~
Placement on
Nat'l Register 4 Historic Places,
+ passionate support by
architects + architectural historians
4 preserving it,
saved most of the best of the building.
Developer (MCR/Morse Development)
Debuted May 15
washingtonpost.com/entertainment/…
~Open 4 Business~
Placement on
Nat'l Register 4 Historic Places,
+ passionate support by
architects + architectural historians
4 preserving it,
saved most of the best of the building.
Developer (MCR/Morse Development)
Debuted May 15
washingtonpost.com/entertainment/…
🏩TWA Hotel🏩
Old terminal repurposed as giant atrium
w restaurants, cafes + concessions,
+ red-carpeted “tubes”
that once led 2 now-demolished gates
connecting visitors 2 new hotel towers.
Includes
W/ addition of 2 7-story hotel wings flanking it,
+ underground event space,
Old terminal repurposed as giant atrium
w restaurants, cafes + concessions,
+ red-carpeted “tubes”
that once led 2 now-demolished gates
connecting visitors 2 new hotel towers.
Includes
W/ addition of 2 7-story hotel wings flanking it,
+ underground event space,
