{"id":324,"date":"2003-10-05T20:42:56","date_gmt":"2003-10-05T23:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=324"},"modified":"2006-01-01T13:16:03","modified_gmt":"2006-01-01T17:16:03","slug":"jfks-twa-terminal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=324","title":{"rendered":"JFK&#8217;s TWA terminal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=dropcap>T<\/span>he Gothamist has an item <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gothamist.com\/archives\/2003\/10\/02\/saarinens_twa_terminal_to_reopen.php\">about the TWA terminal<\/a> at JFK&#8217;s which apparently was designed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scandinaviandesign.com\/eero_saarinen\/\">Eero Saarinen<\/a>. The terminal has been closed for a couple years: it reminds me of a map for Half-Life, or better yet, for any third generation Quake-driven game. <a href=\".\/wp-content\/misc\/twa_newyork.jpg\">See for yourself<\/a> (picture courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lightningfield.com\/extra\/0103twa\/F00001.html\">Lightningfield<\/a>).\n<\/p>\n<p>Saarinen, a Finnish-born American was clearly obsessed with curves. His <a href=\"http:\/\/images.google.com\/images?hl=en&#038;lr=&#038;ie=UTF-8&#038;oe=UTF-8&#038;c2coff=1&#038;q=Gateway%2BArch&#038;sa=N&#038;tab=wi\">Gateway Arch<\/a> (St. Louis) is still one of the most discussed objects. Whether you like it or not, it has clearly redefined St. Louis&#8217;s skyline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Gothamist has an item about the TWA terminal at JFK&#8217;s which apparently was designed by Eero Saarinen. The terminal has been closed for a couple years: it reminds me of a map for Half-Life, or better yet, for any &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=324\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}