John F Kennedy Airport Terminal New York, JFK Building Sundrome News, I M Pei Architect
JFK Airport Terminal 6 New York – Sundrome
JFK Sundrome Building: Major Transportation Building in NYC, United States of America
Jun 23, 2010
JFK Airport Terminal 6 Building
Sundrome pavilion – Key 20th Century Architecture
Status: unused since 2008, due for demolition early 2011
Date built: 1970
Architect: I.M. Pei
JFK Sundrome interior – photo from PCFP
JFK Terminal 6 – Sundrome Pavilion Demoliton
Campaign for reprieve re John F. Kennedy International Airport Terminal 6 demolition.
Proposal to demolish Sundrome building at JFK by The Port Authority of New York.
Area: 66,000 sqft
Reputedly the JFK Sundrome was the first airport structure to use glass as a primary construction material. Previously the campaign to save JFK Terminal 5 was successful
thus giving the Save Terminal 6 campaigners some hope. However the Sundrome is not desginated a landmark by the NY Landmarks Preservation Commission.
I. M. Pei won the coveted RIBA Royal Gold Medal in 2010 so it would be rather ironic if this classic JKF building was demolished this year.
I. M. Pei
Key recent Building designed by I.M. Pei:
Museum of Islamic Art, Doha, Qatar
2008
photo : Courtesy of the Museum of Islamic Art
Museum of Islamic Art Doha
JFK Airport Terminal 5 Building
Trans World Airlines Flight Center, JFK Airport, Jamaica, USA
1962
Eero Saarinen, Architect
Full Title: John F Kennedy International Airport
Wonderful organic architecture in a style that went out of fashion but at the start of the 21st century.
jetblue – Terminal 5: extension & redevelopment of former TWA Building
Date built: 2008
Design: Gensler, Architects
Location: JFK – John F Kennedy International Airport
Works with Eero Saarinen’s TWA Flight Center – closed in 2001
Previously jetblue was in the Sundrome building at JFK by I.M. Pei. architect, USA
Comments re JFK Terminal demolitions welcome at info(at)e-architect.com
Location: John F Kennedy International Airport, New York City, USA
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TWA Building architect : Eero Saarinen
TWA Building Redevelopment architect : Gensler
TWA Flight Center Redevelopment
Key Buildings designed by I.M.Pei:
Pyramide du Louvre, Paris, France
Design: Pei Cobb Freed & Partners
Louvre Pyramid
Bank of China Tower, Hong Kong
Design: I.M. Pei & Partners, Sherman Kung & Associates Architects Ltd
Bank of China Hong Kong – tallest building in Asia from 1989-92
American Airport Buildings – Selection
Indianapolis Airport Terminal, Indiana
Spaceport America, New Mexico
Comments / photos for the John F Kennedy International Airport Terminal Architecture page welcome
Website: www.panynj.gov/airports/jfk.html