Farmers Market LAX

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The historic Farmers Market at Third Street and Fairfax Avenue has been a vital community meeting place for young and old since it began in 1934 as a collection of produce stands in a parking lot next to the old Gilmore Adobe. Its casual, congenial atmosphere is part of the collective memory of Los Angeles and many thousands of Angelenos’ daily lives. Its eclectic character is built by hundreds of small design decisions made by dozens of shopkeepers laid down, erased, and overlaid again and again over the years. Our design challenge was to capture this accretive energy and character in one design at one time by one design team. 

We divided the plan into three distinct layers: a front porch to welcome travelers into the space; a marketplace with custom-designed displays to showcase the diverse brands of the original Farmers Market; and a dining area furnished with custom chairs and tables inspired by the originals. The front porch is flanked by a large-format live-feed video from Third and Fairfax and a bas-relief of the Farmers Market iconic clock tower. A produce market and local brand coffee bar bookend the marketplace, and Monsieur Marcel French delicatessen and Lotería Bar and Grill frame the seating area.

We interpreted the humble, matter-of-fact finishes at the original Farmers Market into a palette of high-quality, precisely detailed materials suitable for a busy modern airport. We orchestrated signage, product display, branding elements and lighting to create clear sight lines and visual energy without visual clutter. CSA developed the entire graphic, branding, and merchandising concept for this project.

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Client
Delaware North Companies
Project Type
Airport Food Court
Location
Los Angeles International Airport, Terminal 5, Los Angeles, CA
Status
Completed 2013
Size
2,300 SF / 600 SF

Earthbar LAX

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Earthbar is a rapidly growing, Los Angeles-based brand founded in 1971 and focused on improving wellness and health through juices, cleanses, vitamins and supplements. This location features the redesigned brand materials palette of neutral earth tones showcasing Earthbar’s colorful product line.

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Client
Delaware North Companies
Project Type
Airport Juice Bar, Retail
Location
Los Angeles International Airport, Terminal 6, Los Angeles, CA
Status
Completed 2016
Size
250 sq. feet
Award
Airport Revenue News  + USA TODAY’s “10 Best” Poll: Corsini Stark #4 and #1 for Lemonade and Earthbar. 

Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf

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The free-standing pavilion in the arrivals concourse at Tom Bradley International Terminal is a new look for CBTL: solid oiled walnut, Carrara marble mosaic tile, brushed stainless steel and purple back-painted glass bring refined elegance to a robust brand. An abstract geometric pattern, reminiscent of Chinese window screens and paper prints, is incised on a solid walnut wall and continues as wood filigree to the trellis overhead. The overall effect can be read as a finely crafted Chinese jewel box or travel trunk and subtly alludes to the often under-appreciated tea offerings of the brand.

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Client
Areas USA
Project Type
Airport Coffee Bar
Location
Los Angeles International Airport, Tom Bradley International Terminal, Los Angeles, CA
Status
Completed 2016
Size
250 sq. feet

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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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