“The TWA terminal was (and is) dynamic and expressive, a monumental sculpture symbolically evoking a giant soaring bird, its wings lifting skyward. Architect and scholar Alexander Gorlin termed it ‘a primal allusion to the idea of an airplane as a Darwinian progression from the pterodactyl to the technology of the plane in flight.’ And Saarinen designed it all, from the glass tubes leading to the planes right down to such minute details as the ashtrays.” Read Article
