This year, the Journal of American Institute of Architects detailed the upcoming renovation of Saarinen’s Design Dome (in the photo, seen at ground level beyond the artificial lake). NBC broadcast its opening in 1956 and three decades later, in 1986, the American Institute of Architects honored the center as the most outstanding architectural project of its era. Construction of Eero Saarinen’s designs for the 38-building complex began in 1949. The General Motors Technical Center - an iconic site of automobile design - is a National Historic Landmark just outside of Detroit’s city limits. General Motors Technical Center, Warren, MI Scotty, who operated the Enterprise transporter system in Star Trek, might feel at home here. The effect is a beam of light amid darkness. Within the cylinder structure, the eye is focused on the circular, white marble altar platform that seems to disembody itself upward in a shimmering mobile curtain (designed by Harry Bertoia) to the chapel’s skylight. The non-denominational chapel on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) campus was designed in 1955 by Eero Saarinen. Beam Us Up, Eero MIT Chapel, Cambridge, MA People have leaned to the aquatic, rather than outer space, in giving the cavernous space a nickname: it’s called “The Whale,” though at the rink’s entrance we’re reminded of the tail and wings of a plane. The hockey rink he designed was completed in 1958. Ingalls Rink is part of Yale University, Eero Saarinen’s alma mater. The National Historic Landmark’s internal tram system transports visitors to the top, where a view includes the sinuous Mississippi River, the city and the Great Plains beyond. The design is an example of a flattened catenary curve, a type of weighted curve made by a chain when suspended from two ends. Louis, Missouri, was completed in October 1965. The Gateway Arch, a 630-foot-high parabola of stainless steel marking the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial in St. We hope the interiors by Charles Eames, Raymond Loewy, and Warren Platner are preserved as well. Gothamist and CurbedNY offer gorgeous photos from the interior and exterior and more news on the 505-room hotel to come. The upswept roof of the exterior is a typical feature of Googie architecture, a subset of Futuristic architecture that was influenced by cars, jets and the Space Age. On December 15, 2016, Governor Andrew Cuomo joined the developers in symbolic groundbreaking for JKF’s very first on-site hotel. The terminal, dedicated in May 1962 - the same year The Jetsons premiered - was closed at the airport in 2001. Travelers can now imagine what it feels to live like a Jetson when Eero Saarinen’s TWA Terminal re-opens as The TWA Hotel. Filmmaker Peter Rosen journeys with his director of photography, Eero Saarinen’s son, Eric Saarinen, ASC, to see Saarinen’s work across the country - using drone technology to give us the best views.Įeva-Liisa Pelkonen, co-editor of Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future, writes in an essay, Saarinen “understood that time was not a given, but could be manipulated, stretched, imagined, and suspended.” Saarinen’s works stretched our imaginations about space and raised the bar for far out make-believe designs of the future - see anything you like, Star Trek and Star Wars and Sci-Fi fans? Designs for the Space Age TWA Terminal, JFK Airport, New York City On Tuesday, December 27, American Masters presents its Season 30 finale, Eero Saarinen: The Architect Who Saw the Future, on PBS. Louis’ iconic Gateway Arch, the North Christian Church in Indiana and the TWA Terminal at John F. Finnish-American modernist architectural giant Eero Saarinen (1910-1961) built down-to-earth chairs (the Tulip, Grasshopper and the Womb) before moving on to soaring and space-age structures such as St. Eero Saarinen helped introduce modern architecture to America, and one could say he launched us into orbiting the future as well.
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