"Completed in 1962 and designed by the Finnish-American architect Eero Saarinen, who also designed St. Louis's Gateway Arch, the original TWA Flight Center was built amid the Golden Age of Flying, but closed in 2001 when the airline went kaput. The architectural marvel has since been revived into a 512-room hotel designed that functions not only as a traditional (if more upscale) airport hotel, but as a fascinating place for those with layovers to get some respite. Rooms are available for four and six-hour bookings, as well as overnight, and are thoroughly soundproofed. You won’t hear a thing: not the booms as planes land and take off, nor the din of Ubers waiting to drop off passengers, nor the high-frequency bleeps and bloops one normally associates with an airport. But you will see all of this if your room faces the runway; if not, you’ll be facing the Saarinen building—either way, the views are a win." - CNT Editors
