Besides the Theme Building, the central terminal area of LAX includes a 13-story retired air-traffic control tower and adjoining offices that were added later (now collectively known as the Clifton A.

However cursed LAX might be, it’s also home to one of the area’s most iconic structures: the Theme Building. Located directly in the center of the airport, with cars circling its spider-like ...

One of LAX airport’s iconic buildings is the LAX Theme Building, hovering like an alien spaceship/UFO in the midst of the transportation hub. If you have enough of a layover in Los Angeles ...

The free telescopes that dot the rooftop of the iconic Theme Building at LAX provided a window to faraway destinations for Winfrey Giese. Ever since he was a teenager, the picturesque views have ...

One of the tour’s centerpieces: the LAX Theme Building. Its futuristic look and space-age design helped give LAX a modern identity at the time of its completion in August 1961. In 1992 ...

The Theme Restaurant Building has been virtually synonymous with LAX since it opened in 1961. In 2001, the rooftop observation deck was closed in reaction to the September 11th terrorist attacks ...

The modernistic Theme Building at the entrance to Los Angeles International Airport reopened today after a three-year, $12.3-million renovation and seismic retrofitting. “LAX brings the world to ...

is renovating the historic LAX Theme Building. The $15-million renovation of the 1961 Los Angeles landmark structure is will be completed in August 2009. Once the renovation is complete, the ...

That was the daunting challenge posed to officials at Los Angeles International Airport more than three years ago, when a half-ton chunk of plaster fell from the space-age-style Theme Building ...

according to a report submitted by the city agency that operates LAX. The total cost for repairing the Theme Building is anticipated to be close to $10 million, which also includes some upgrades ...

The Theme Building’s existence is bound up with the initial idea of LAX. Starting in the late 1950s, the emergence of streamlined aircraft made the idea of mass jet travel a reality.