Carl’s Jr.

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.