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There have been several posts to this blog regarding unusual airport construction–covering part of the Thames, floating in the NYC bay, on top of numerous/differential rooftops, floating and/or moored in the ocean, on top giant airplanes, landing and launched from dirigibles, and so on (including a vertical airport where the aircraft are dropped in tubes).  The example I have just found this morning is a mild twist on this topic, as it is a helipad–a futuristic one, judging from the Harley Earle/Buck Rogers-style design.  

See, for example:

• Floating and Airborne Airports: https://historyofideasblog.com/thesciencebookstore/2015/03/floating-and-airborne-airports.html
• Underground Airports 1935-1941: https://historyofideasblog.com/thesciencebookstore/2015/04/underground-airports.html
• Rooftop, Elevated, Floating Inner-City Airports  https://historyofideasblog.com/thesciencebookstore/2010/08/elevated-rooftop-innercity-circular-airports-1919.html

 (There are other examples scattered around the blog–just check out “airports” in the Google search box for more.) 

 There is also a time/distance map of air travel originating from NYC:

 [Source: Popular Mechanics, February, 1945]