Engineer who helped build iconic TWA terminal at Kennedy Airport dies

New York

ABBA Tor, whose engineering prowess helped the landmark Trans World Flight Center take wing at Kennedy International Airport - and kept it from cracking apart - died on Feb 11 in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York. He was 93.

The cause was cardiac arrest, his daughter Shuli Tor said.

Associated with Eero Saarinen and Louis Kahn, pillars of modern architecture, Mr Tor worked with Mr Saarinen on the John Deere World Headquarters in Moline, Illinois, and the Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center in New York, and with Mr Kahn on the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven, Connecticut.

But he earned his reputation with Trans World Airlines' birdlike terminal, …