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From the RECORD Archives: ‘Bell Labs’ Mirrored Superblock’

March 28, 2025

Read the 1962 assessment of Eero Saarinen’s hulking New Jersey research campus that plays a starring role in the acclaimed science fiction thriller series ‘Severance.’

Record Interiors 2024

Vocon and MdeAS Architects Polish Up Eero Saarinen’s ‘Black Rock’ CBS Building in New York

New York

Clifford A. Pearson

April 8, 2024

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The firms were charged with updating the building’s common areas while retaining the unapologetic midcentury swagger of Saarinen’s sole high-rise.

Tower at Eliel Saarinen-Designed First Christian Church Soars Again After $3.2 Million Restoration

Matt Hickman

February 29, 2024

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Completed in 1942, the National Historic Landmark–designated site in Columbus, Indiana, is considered one of the first Modernist churches in the U.S.

Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen Investigates the 'Untimely Moderns' of 20th-Century Architecture

Review 'Untimely Moderns: How Twentieth-Century Architecture Reimagined the Past,' by Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen

A. Krista Sykes

February 8, 2024

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A book examines Yale University as a former incubator for architects and designers—Louis Kahn, Paul Rudolph, and Eero Saarinen among them—who shared a “penchant for conflating the past, present, and future.”

Diplomatic Design Reinvents the Former U.S. Embassy in Oslo

Andrew Ayers

February 1, 2024

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Eero Saarinen's striking 1959 chancery—one of three buildings in Europe by the architect—now houses offices, an event space, café, and restaurants thanks to Atelier Oslo and Lundhagem.

TWA Hotel at JFK Gives New Life to Saarinen’s Flight Center

Fred A. Bernstein

May 15, 2019

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Completed in 1962 and abandoned in 2001, Eero Saarinen’s bird-like building at JFK Airport in New York now serves as a spectacular lobby for the new hotel.

Interview with Susan Saarinen

The landscape architect reflects on her father Eero and his influence on her work

Laura Raskin

October 29, 2018

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The landscape architect reflects on her father Eero and his influence on her work.

Gateway Arch Grounds and Museum

St. Louis

Josephine Minutillo

June 29, 2018

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A subtle but radical redesign of the Arch grounds in St. Louis opens in July.

Docomomo Announces 2017 Modernism in America Awards

Danielle Cohen

June 22, 2017

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Docomomo US, a nonprofit dedicated to protecting modern architecture and design, announced the winners of the 2017 Modernism in America Awards program this week.