One block away from downtown Palm Springs, California sits the Del Marcos Hotel โ a hotel designed in 1947 by William F. Cody. Cody is considered a โfamed desert architect,โ for this hotel, along with some of his other works.
Saarinenโs TWA Flight Center A landmark airport terminal is not the first place that people are likely to look when looking for mid-century design. The style being mostly associated with furniture for the home. But to really get a flavour of where the the mid-century sits in the broader history of modernist design there are a fair few things to learn from the TWA Flight Center at New York Cityโs John F. Kennedy International Airport.
The legendary mid-century architect William F. Cody was a difficult man to pigeonhole. There exist few buildings that could really explain his style and many of his larger scale projects were quite eccentric, curved in some instances, in others borderline Googie.
