TWA Administrative Offices Building

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TWA Administrative Offices Building
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Location11500 Ambassador Dr., Kansas City, Missouri
Coordinates 39°18′07″N94°40′54″W / 39.30194°N 94.68167°W / 39.30194; -94.68167 Coordinates: 39°18′07″N94°40′54″W / 39.30194°N 94.68167°W / 39.30194; -94.68167
Area30 acres (12 ha)
Built1968 (1968)-1971
ArchitectSkidmore Owings & Merrill; Wilson, Morris, Crain & Anderson
Architectural styleModern Movement, Miesian
NRHP reference No. 07001157 [1]
Added to NRHPNovember 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

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It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  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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