LAX Gateway Enhancement Project
Tanaka, Ted Tokio
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Date
2000Description
View of a single 100 ft. pylon, a steel truss structure with curved translucent glass cladding and lighting inside; Los Angeles International Airport’s (LAX’s) series of 100-foot-high colorfully lit pylons and 32-foot-high letters spelling out “LAX” have become a landmark and symbolic gateway of LAX since their commemoration on August 8, 2000. The LAX Gateway pylons are the most well-known example of public art in Los Angeles, and are visible to airline passengers from 3,000 feet high. The 1.5-mile lineup of 11 translucent, tempered glass columns increase in height from 25 to 60 feet along Century Boulevard and culminate with a “Gateway Circle” of 15 100-foot-tall columns at the intersection of Century and Sepulveda Boulevards. The pylons are lit from dusk to dawn daily in a kinetic lighting installation. A new LED lighting system was installed in 2006 and increases the light color palette to 16 million colors. Source: Los Angeles World Airports; http://www.lawa.org/ (accessed 8/31/2015)
Type of Work
installation (visual work); gardenSubject
architecture, typography or calligraphy, Street lighting, Transportation, public art, light sculpture, Twenty-first century
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