TWA Administrative Offices Building

TWA Administrative Offices Building
Location 11500 Ambassador Dr., Kansas City, Missouri
Coordinates 39°18′07″N 94°40′54″W / 39.30194°N 94.68167°W / 39.30194; -94.68167Coordinates: 39°18′07″N 94°40′54″W / 39.30194°N 94.68167°W / 39.30194; -94.68167
Area 30 acres (12 ha)
Built 1968 (1968)-1971
Architect Skidmore Owings & Merrill; Wilson, Morris, Crain & Anderson
Architectural style Modern Movement, Miesian
NRHP reference # 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]

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References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. ↑ 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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