Carl’s Jr.

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The architectural language of Carl’s Jr. LAX references the brand’s origin in the car culture of mid-twentieth-century Southern California — with streamlined curvilinear surfaces reminiscent of 1950s auto design and a materials palette derived from the brand’s colorized black-and-white historic photo archive — to create a dynamic, contemporary space appropriate for a twenty-first-century airport. An illuminated light box above the banquette enshrines the historic imagery as the design DNA of the space.

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Client
Areas USA
Project Type
Airport Quick-Service Restaurant
Location
Los Angeles International Airport, Terminal 8, Los Angeles, CA
Status
Completed 2012
Size
2,100 sq. feet

B Grill by BOA Steakhouse

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The restaurant is visually anchored by a white liquor display spindle around which a zinc-clad, linear space-form defines the entry, frames views, and wraps back upon itself to define multiple sub-spaces. A stalactite-inspired light fixture of red acrylic tubes defines the geographic center of the space and creates compositional tension with the white spindle, which marks the restaurant’s centrifugal center. At the take-out counter, a “red carpet” of floor tile welcomes the traveler and wraps up the wall to announce entry and accentuate the space between the beginning and end of the zinc-clad space-form.

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Client
Areas USA
Project Type
Airport Full-Service Restaurant, Bar
Location
LA International Airport, Terminal 7, Los Angeles, CA
Status
Completed 2013
Size
3,400 sq. feet

Engine Co. No. 28

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At Engine Co. No. 28 we pay homage to the courage and heroism of our Los Angeles firefighters.

We enlarged a striking historical photo from the LAFD archive to a larger-than-life scale and cut it into vertical strips. We laminated it to one side of a triangular corrugated surface and painted the opposite side fire-engine red to create a three-dimensional lenticular surface.

The resulting pattern and rhythm animate the long concourse while the monumental image stands above the concourse’s visual clutter to literally point the way to the entrance. As one moves in either direction, the image fades from one’s peripheral vision, like a distant memory, into a field of color.

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INFORMATION
Client
Areas USA
Project Type
Airport Full-Service Restaurant, Bar
Location
Los Angeles International Airport, Terminal 8, Los Angeles, CA
Status
Completed 2013
Size
3,100 sq. feet