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A project to redevelop the Love Field site is one of several promising efforts to preserve midcentury designs.
The the historic Farmers & Stockmens Bank building is on Washington Street in Phoenix.
Built in 1961 by architects William Pereira and Charles Luckman, the LAX Theme Building was influenced by the “Googie” and “Popluxe” design schools and part of the Los Angeles Jet Age ...
The Theme Building, ... Designed by the Pereira & Luckman architectural firm to symbolize a jet-age future, ... engineering and architecture companies, signed in on a May 3 site tour.
The theme of the spidery structure with the soaring arches was the unbridled optimism of the future when it was built 50 years ago in the center of Los Angeles International Airport. It was called ...
The Theme Building and the Pereira & Luckman LAX master plan also fall into a category of late modernism — a period after the famous designs by Silver Lake–based Austrian architect Richard ...
Pereira and Luckman soon turned into one of the nimblest teams in U.S. architecture. In Washington, when Navy officials poked holes in their design for a naval-training center, they spent the ...
Chief Architect Gin Wong partnered with leading firms Pereira & Luckman and Associates, Welton Becket and Associates, and Paul R. Williams, to create the $2.2 million Theme Building.
Once the heart of LAX, the Theme Building now stands as a forgotten icon. Explore its unique architecture, cultural significance, and the reasons behind its decline. It’s a fascinating look at one of ...
It's a bird, it's a plane, it's the Theme Building at Los Angeles International Airport by Pereira & Luckman Architects in collaboration with Paul R. Williams and Welton Becket. (EditorASC ...
One of the architects involved in the Theme Building’s design, William Pereira, originally conceived the central structure as the airport’s control tower. (Pereira also designed San Francisco ...
The architecture and career of American modernist William Pereira (1909-85) has been long celebrated and well documented. After founding William L. Pereira & Associates in Los Angeles in 1958, Pereira ...