TWA Administrative Offices Building
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| Location | 11500 Ambassador Dr., Kansas City, Missouri |
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| Coordinates | 39°18′07″N 94°40′54″W / 39.30194°N 94.68167°W |
| Area | 30 acres (12 ha) |
| Built | 1968-1971 |
| Architect | Skidmore Owings & Merrill; Wilson, Morris, Crain & Anderson |
| Architectural style | Modern Movement, Miesian |
| NRHP reference No. | 07001157[1] |
| Added to NRHP | November 6, 2007 |
TWA Administrative Offices Building is a historic office building located at Kansas City, Platte County, Missouri. It was designed by the architectural firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and Wilson, Morris, Crain & Anderson and built between 1968 and 1971 for Trans World Airlines. It is a four-story, rectangular, Modern Movement Miesian style building. It measures 252 feet by 396 feet and is a steel frame building with a curtain wall of tinted grey-black glass separated by thin black aluminum muntins and panels of white marble. The building encompasses approximately 500,000 square feet of space.[2]: 5
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.[1]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ Sally Schwenk and Kerry Davis (April 2007). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: TWA Administrative Offices Building" (PDF). Missouri Department of Natural Resources. Retrieved 2017-02-01. (includes 19 photographs from 2007)
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Media related to TWA Administrative Offices Building at Wikimedia Commons
- Trans World Airlines
- Office buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Missouri
- Modernist architecture in Missouri
- Office buildings completed in 1971
- Buildings and structures in Platte County, Missouri
- National Register of Historic Places in Platte County, Missouri
- Kansas City, Missouri region Registered Historic Place stubs