TWA Hotel

Step into a world where innovative architecture meets purposeful design at the TWA Hotel.

The 10 Best Hotels for Architecture and Design From a reimagined safari camp to an art-filled Canadian outpost, these 10 hotels get high marks for their innovative architecture and purposeful design.

Let your flag fly! There is no place like our rooftop for the best plane spotting in the world. Read about our friends at La Flights as they chat with Thrillist about the appeal of plane spotting and the growing community.

How Two Brothers Turned Planespotting Into YouTube Gold Planespotting, the act of obsessing over airplanes at airports, is a popular activity for aviation enthusiasts. Meet two LA brothers who turned the activity into a full-time YouTube career.

Cloudy, chance of a Spritz.

Need a pre-flight libation? We have you covered! Food & Wine brings you the Best Hotel Bars in the US, featuring the Sunken Lounge and Connie.

The Best Hotel Bars in the U.S., According to Our Readers Food & Wine readers voted these on-site hotel bars as their favorites in the country for the inaugural Global Tastemakers awards.

Get pumped for the final season of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel! Join TWA Fitness as we say Maisel Tov to with Midge’s favorite retro workout class on April 14 at 4 PM. (Costumes are encouraged!) The final season of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel premieres April 14, only on Prime Video.

Email Fitness Manager Josh Denenberg ([email protected]) or call TWA Fitness at (212) 790-3653 to reserve your free spot.

Round 2 of the Most Instagrammable Hotel in the World is live. Vote for in the link below. No sign-ups or registration required!

https://www.luxurytraveladvisor.com/hotels/most-instagrammable-hotel-world-2023?fbclid=IwAR2hu2Vx05tbfs1tA2Cgq0on4wP8NTvFV6OiqaqpCS_RFSxkQOWX7meIDc4

Round 2: The Most Instagrammable Hotel in the World 2023 Round 1 of Luxury Travel Advisor's Most Instagrammable Hotel in the World is in the books and Round 2 is | Voting is now open for the second round of our Most Instagrammable Hotel in the World contest for 2023. Polls close March 23 at 10 a.m. ET.

On Saturday, February 25, 2023, more than 40 teams competed for blocking glory at the TWA Hotel.

Players tapped, wiggled and stacked their way through a series of thrilling Jenga® games while our official referees kept score and our emcee entertained with play-by-play commentary.

In the end, four teams advanced to the final showdown in the Sunken Lounge. Our Jenga® champion team went home with a huge trophy and an even bigger check for $10,000.

How do you stack up? Your JENGA® skills could win you $10,000!

Win $10,000 in NYC's First JENGA® Competition at the TWA Hotel - Untapped New York Try your steady hand at winning the grand prize at the National Blocking Association's very first Jenga® competition hosted at the TWA Hotel!

The Cut: “It would be like getting married in A Space Odyssey.”

A Jet-Age Wedding at the TWA Hotel “It would be like getting married in A Space Odyssey.”

Slide on by and try your hand at curling!

You can now go curling at JFK Airport’s swanky TWA Hotel It’s free to play at the gorgeous ’60s hotel.

"Mad Men and Catch Me if You Can are two of our most favorite things to watch. Mid Century Modern is our favorite design aesthetic. And we fly for a living! It really couldn’t have been more perfect..."

TWA Hotel at JFK Airport Wedding - Modern Weddings Tara and Nick knew the only place for them to get married was the TWA Hotel at JFK Airport. Nick is a pilot and Tara is a flight attendant.

Put your feet up! No blue suede shoes needed. 📷:

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas. 🎄 📷:

We’ll take you under our wing.

Playing house with the original 1962 Barbie Dreamhouse. 🏡

Hitting the road this weekend? Come back a bite at the Paris Cafe or our Food Hall!

The best restaurants in America's busiest airports A respectable airport restaurant is like a port in a storm. If you've made it through...

Time Out New York: Camp TWA is in session!

Play Jenga, croquet, and ping pong on the tarmac at TWA Hotel’s new summer camp It’s the end-of-summer adventure you need.

Come bump with us!

You can now ride bumper cars on the tarmac at JFK Airport A bumper car race course has opened next to the “Connie” bar and lounge.

"This is Eero Saarinen’s TWA Flight Center at JFK Airport, the only airline terminal—past or present—to be universally acknowledged as a masterwork."

https://www.wsj.com/articles/when-design-takes-flight-twa-flight-center-eero-saarinen-john-f-kennedy-airport-trans-world-airlines-twa-hotel-terminal-city-boeing-707-11655503723

When Design Takes Flight Eero Saarinen’s TWA Flight Center—once an airport terminal and now a hotel—is an inspired exercise in functional beauty.

When you want to fly someplace exciting, think TWA...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9yYFSsqTXw&t=30s

1974 TWA Vacation Around the World Commercials

❤️" He described his proposal — which he had plotted out a week earlier with the maître d’ at the hotel’s restaurant, Paris Café — as “an expression of love through design.”

Slow to Take Off, After a First Date They Cruised Jacob Esocoff and Sascha Feldman met in a college seminar. More than six years later, he finally worked up the nerve to ask her out.

Ready to lace up? Roller skating returns April 15!

https://mailchi.mp/536d5b2e64a5/roller-rink-14169948?e=00625b8832

Plane and simple: The 12 Best Spots to Go ‘Plane-Spotting’ Across the U.S.

https://www.fodors.com/news/photos/best-places-plane-spotting

The 12 Best Spots to Go ‘Plane-Spotting’ Across the U.S. From LAX to ORD, you can enjoy watching planes take off and land with these rooftop bars, infinity pools, campgrounds, and more.

Ready to relive aviation history? Listen to the latest Pan Am Museum Foundation podcast, featuring Pam Blaschum, director of the TWA Museum in Kansas City, Missouri, and Tyler Morse of MCR Hotels who developed the former TWA Flight Center at JFK Airport into the TWA Hotel!

https://podcast.thepanammuseum.org/1836491/9661220-episode-13-the-twa-edition-exploring-the-twa-museum-and-twa-hotel

Episode 13: The TWA Edition! Exploring the TWA Museum and TWA Hotel - The Pan Am Podcast Welcome to a special TWA Edition of The Pan Am Podcast!In this episode we are joined by Pam Blaschum, the director of the TWA Museum in Kansas City, Missouri. Then we are joined by Tyler Morse of MCR Hotels who developed the former TWA Flight Cen...

Weddings, elevated!

https://www.brides.com/a-retro-wedding-jfk-twa-hotel-new-york-city-5213216

A Retro Wedding at JFK's TWA Hotel in New York City These grooms invited 135 of their friends and family to attend their travel-themed wedding at the TWA Hotel, a former airport terminal at JFK.

It's the most wonderful time of the year and you should spend it with us!

https://www.papercitymag.com/culture/travel/how-to-spend-holiday-weekend-new-york-city/

How to Spend a Magical Holiday Weekend in New York City As a child growing up in suburban New York (I didn’t meet my Texan husband until grad school), I yearned to go into Manhattan and ice skate in Rockefeller

For all the avgeeks on the nice list!

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Lauren Scala takes over the Sunken Lounge to chat with Tom Vitale about his new book, In the Weeds: Around the World and Behind the Scenes with Anthony Bourdain.

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/entertainment/the-scene/new-york-live/in-the-weeds-with-tom-vitale/3393369/

‘In The Weeds' With Tom Vitale Anthony Bourdain’s director talks with Lauren Scala at the TWA Hotel about his new book and their global adventures.

Sky high fashion.

https://www.elle.com/fashion/a37288168/mayowa-nicholas-interview-photo-shoot/

Mayowa Nicholas Takes Flight Remember when flying was glamorous? The rising supermodel gives airport style an injection of retro chic in fall’s ’60s-influenced finest.

"... For you to be sitting in the sunken lounge of the most unique hotel lobby in America required a herculean effort by architects, historic preservationists, developers and designers. The rebirth of the Saarinen-designed 1962 Trans World Airlines Flight Center at Idlewild Airport into the destination TWA Hotel at JFK spanned decades and the result is stunning." -- Atomic Ranch Magazine

https://www.atomic-ranch.com/architecture-design/road-trip/twa-hotel-saving-saarinen/

The TWA Hotel: Saving Saarinen, Part 1 - Home The rebirth of the Saarinen-designed 1962 Trans World Airlines Flight Center at Idlewild Airport into the TWA Hotel at JFK spanned decades and the result is stunning.

We're throwing a retirement party for the one-calorie cola conceived in 1962, the year the TWA Flight Center opened. Every evening at 7 PM, a tribute to the carbonated sip flips on the Solari departures board while Jack & Tab cocktails flow. (We’ve stashed cases of the cola, discontinued in December 2020, in a secret spot — place your order before our last can is popped!) 📷:

Sit back, relax, and enjoy the flight. 🍹 ✈️ 📷:

Come roll with us! Our new Roll-A-Rama at the Runway Rink opens tomorrow.

https://www.timeout.com/newyork/news/roll-a-rama-lets-you-skate-on-the-tarmac-at-the-twa-hotel-051321

Now you can roller skate on the tarmac at TWA Hotel It’s the only roller rink at an airport.

Take a photographic tour courtesy of Live and Let's Fly!

https://liveandletsfly.com/twa-hotel-photo-essay/

Photo Essay: TWA Hotel - Live and Let's Fly A TWA Hotel photo essay with over 80 pictures of the masterful Eero Saarinen-designed TWA Flight Center, now a hotel at New York JFK.

Floor-to-ceiling views of Eero Saarinen's iconic TWA Flight Center. 360 view by Urbanist

✈️ View of the TWA Hotel room, it’s super swanky and features an Eero Saarinen designed Womb Chair! All I now need is an Old Fashioned cocktail.

Bon appétit! The historic Paris Café by Jean-Georges re-opens starting today, Wednesday through Sunday from 4:30 PM to 10 PM.

https://www.twahotel.com/food-drink/paris-cafe

Paris Cafe Bon appétit! World-renowned chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten helms the Paris Café restaurant at TWA Hotel, serving breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks and cocktails at a medium price point.

Yesterday, Tyler Morse, Chairman and CEO of MCR/MORSE Development, and Port Authority of New York & New Jersey Executive Director Rick Cotton received the Chairman's Award from The New York Landmarks Conservancy for their preservation of the TWA Flight Center. Take a peek at some of the work done to preserve Eero Saarinen’s masterpiece for generations to come!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqk0dGo73Xk&feature=youtu.be

2021 Chairman’s Award Virtual Celebration The New York Landmarks Conservancy inaugurated the Chairman’s Award in 1988 to recognize exceptional individuals, organizations, and businesses that have dem...

Take a virtual trip with TIME inside Eero Saarinen’s iconic TWA Flight Center!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uIA9eFSNzY

JFK's Iconic TWA Terminal Is Now The Coolest Hotel In New York City | TIME After sitting dormant beside John F. Kennedy International Airport’s Terminal 5 for nearly 20 years, the historic TWA Flight Center reopened May 15 as the sl...

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