Saving Saarinen's Trumpet · May 8, 09:08 AM
May is National Preservation Month and therefore the perfect time to bring you good news about efforts to preserve as much as possible of one of our favorite buildings. A recent article on Preservation Online discussed plans to move a section of Eero Saarinen’s 1962 TWA Terminal at JFK airport known as the “trumpet” in preparation for construction of the new JetBlue Airways terminal:
“The trumpet, called such because of its curved shape, was saved last summer thanks to the efforts of a group of more than 15 organizations who formed the Redevelopment Advisory Committee in 2003 to consult with JetBlue about protecting Saarinen’s design. JetBlue agreed to save the trumpet, the front of the terminal (also called the head house), and two tubes that once led to the flight wings. The airline destroyed the flight wings themselves in 2005 to make room for the new terminal.”
PA Press published a gem of a book of Ezra Stoller images of the TWA Terminal in 1999, but it is unfortunately out of stock at the moment. May we suggest the comprehensive monograph Eero Saarinen: An Architecture of Multiplicity newly available in paperback? It contains many stunning images of the TWA Terminal as the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Dulles Airport, outside Washington D.C., the CBS Building in New York, the General Motors Technical Center in Michigan, the US Embassy in London, and many other landmarks.
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