TWA Hotel at JFK International Airport
The award-winning TWA Hotel opened in 2019 at JFK International Airport in Queens.
Through the restoration and reuse of Eero Saarinen’s historic TWA Flight Center, the new hotel has 512 guestrooms, 50,000 square feet of meeting and event space, shops, restaurants. The hotel also includes a cocktail lounge realized through the transformation of a Lockheed Constellation “Connie” aircraft.
AKRF prepared the NEPA Environmental Assessment and Section 4(f) Evaluation to analyze environmental effects of the project during construction and operation. We delivered the project on an expedited schedule, working with the Federal Aviation Administration, Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, and other stakeholders throughout the process.
The hotel was developed by MCR and designed by Beyer Blinder Belle with Lubrano Ciavarra Architects.
Photo by Max Harlynking via Unsplash
Industry Honors
2021 AIA National Award for Architecture
2019 The Architect’s Newspaper Best of Design, Building of the Year
2019 The Architect’s Newspaper Best of Design, Adaptive Reuse
2019 New York State Historic Preservation Office Preservation Award
2016 SARA New York Council Excellence in Historic Preservation and Restoration Award
Improving vehicular and pedestrian access
AKRF’s PHA Division provided roadway design, utility coordination, signal design, and grading and drainage design to reconfigure the Terminal 5 arrivals/departures intersection with the airport access road—including a new signal and pedestrian crosswalk—and modifications to the Yellow Garage access and internal circulation.
We also prepared maintenance and protection of traffic plans, including traffic modeling to ensure airport circulation would not be impacted during construction.
