TWA Administrative Offices Building

TWA Administrative Offices Building
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	11500 Ambassador Dr., Kansas City, Missouri
Coordinates	39°18′07″N94°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 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

• TWA Corporate Headquarters Building

References

1. "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 February 1, 2017. (includes 19 photographs from 2007)

External links

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