| dc.coverage.spatial | Site: Los Angeles, California, United States | en_US |
| dc.coverage.temporal | 2000 (creation) | en_US |
| dc.creator | Tanaka, Ted Tokio | en_US |
| dc.date | 2000 | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-07-01T18:41:27Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-07-01T18:41:27Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2000 | en_US |
| dc.identifier | 265771 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.other | archrefid: 3188 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/181825 | |
| dc.description | Walkway to small park at center of the Gateway Circle, with built in concrete benches, rose garden and flag pole; 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) | en_US |
| dc.format.medium | translucent, tempered glass; structural steel | en_US |
| dc.rights | © Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc. | en_US |
| dc.subject | architecture | en_US |
| dc.subject | typography or calligraphy | en_US |
| dc.subject | Street lighting | en_US |
| dc.subject | Transportation | en_US |
| dc.subject | public art | en_US |
| dc.subject | light sculpture | en_US |
| dc.subject | Twenty-first century | en_US |
| dc.title | LAX Gateway Enhancement Project | 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 | 1A2-US-LA-LAXP-A10 | en_US |
| vra.culturalContext | American | en_US |
| vra.technique | construction (assembling), gardening | en_US |
| vra.worktype | installation (visual work) | en_US |
| vra.worktype | garden | en_US |
| dc.contributor.display | Ted Tokio Tanaka (American architect, born 1942) | en_US |
