Description

Black and white photograph of a model of the TWA unit terminal at Idlewild Airport - now John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) - designed by Eero Saarinen.

Original Caption: "Eero Saarinen's model of new TWA unit terminal, Idlewild Airport, New York. Two-and-one-half year project scheduled for completion in late 1961, 50,000 square feet lightweight concrete roof shell -- supported by only four concrete buttresses -- weighs 5500 tons, contains 3200 cubic yards of Pozzolith concrete and 500 tons of steel. Architect: Eero Saarinen & Associates. Supervising Resident Architect: Ralph Yeakel. Consulting Engineers: Ammann & Whitney -- Boyd G. Anderson, Senior Partner in Charge. General Contractor: Grove, Shepherd, Wilson & Kruge, Inc. -- Kenneth P. Morris, Field Project Manager. Testing: Haller Testing Laboratories, Inc."

Not used in Technology Review, filed July 27 1961.