| dc.coverage.spatial | Site: Los Angeles, California, United States | en_US |
| dc.coverage.temporal | 1961 (creation) | en_US |
| dc.creator | Pereira and Luckman | en_US |
| dc.date | 1961 | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-06-13T20:31:24Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-06-13T20:31:24Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1961 | en_US |
| dc.identifier | 263253 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.other | archrefid: 3189 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/179311 | |
| dc.description | One of four steel-reinforced concrete legs on axis with opening in circular concrete screen wall; former restaurant signage, now blank; The Theme Building is an iconic landmark structure at the Los Angeles International Airport. It is an example of the Mid-Century modern influenced design school known as "Googie" or "Populuxe." The distinctive white building resembles a flying saucer that has landed on its four legs. The appearance of the building as a single homogeneous structure is a constructed illusion. The building's two crossed arches actually consist of four steel-reinforced concrete legs that extend approximately 15 feet above the ground, and a hollow, stucco-covered steel truss constituting the remaining lower arches and entire upper arches. To avoid changing the appearance of the structure with overt reinforcement, the Theme Building was retrofitted with a tuned mass damper to counteract earthquakes. The Theme building is an observation tower (at the 68 ft. level); it once had a revolving (later stationary) restaurant below, but this is currently closed. Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page (accessed 8/30/2015) | en_US |
| dc.format.medium | steel; concrete; glass; stucco | en_US |
| dc.rights | © Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc. | en_US |
| dc.subject | architecture | en_US |
| dc.subject | contemporary (1960 to present) | en_US |
| dc.subject | Transportation | en_US |
| dc.subject | Mid-Century Modernist | en_US |
| dc.subject | Googie | en_US |
| dc.title | Theme Building, LAX | en_US |
| dc.title.alternative | Theme Building, Los Angeles International Airport | en_US |
| dc.type | image | en_US |
| dc.rights.access | Licensed for educational and research use by the MIT community only | en_US |
| dc.identifier.vendorcode | 1A1-PW-TB-E02 | en_US |
| vra.culturalContext | American | en_US |
| vra.technique | construction (assembling) | en_US |
| vra.worktype | observation tower | en_US |
| dc.contributor.display | Pereira and Luckman (American architectural firm, 1950-1958) | en_US |
