Frequent flying is a fact of modern life for most of us. In the last few weeks, I flew to Paris for a memorable Pritzker Prize ceremony at Versailles, honoring architect Arata Isozaki. Not long after, I flew to the national AIA conference, where I could have booked the “Versaillesstyle Napoleon suite” at the Paris Las Vegas, complete with a miniature Eiffel Tower out front. Go figure.
On the way there, I stopped at the new TWA Hotel at JFK airport in New York. The hotel’s sleek, small rooms are housed in a pair of plain seven-story glass-fronted structures, set like parentheses on each side of Eero Saarinen’s TWA Flight Center. That sculpturally evocative, once-threatened building (it was landmarked in 1994) has been beautifully restored by Beyer Blinder Belle and repurposed as a lobby and lounge for the hotel. A new Jean-Georges Vongerichten restaurant is located on the mezzanine where a Parisian café once whetted the appetites of international travelers for the cuisine that awaited them in France.
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