Structure Type: built works - infrastructure - transportation structures - airports

Designers: Fentress Architects (firm); Curtis Worth Fentress (architect)

Dates: constructed 1982-1984

total floor area: 963,000 sq. ft.

1 World Way
Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), Los Angeles, CA 90045

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Building History

Erected at a cost of $123 million, the Tom Bradley International Terminal at the Los Angeles International Airport opened on 06/11/1984, a little over a month before the XXIII Olympiad began in the city on 07/28/1984.

Alteration

Politicians and airport administrators announced a massive renovation and enlargement plan in 2008, projected to cost $4.11 billion. The building was enlarged from 963,000 square feet to 1.2 million. The terminal was updated aesthetically and its gates retrofitted to accommodate larger jets entering international usage in the 2010s, such as the Boeing 787 Dreamliner and Airbus A380. Construction finished in 09/2016.

A large team of designers and engineers worked on this decade-long transformation of the Bradley Terminal. It included: Fentress Architects, HNTB Architecture, BASE Architecture, Walsh Austin Joint Venture, John A. Martin & Associates, Martin/Martin, Miyamoto International, Syska Hennessy Group, TMAD Taylor & Gaines, Hatch Mott MacDonald, Architectural Energy Corporation, Horton Lees Brogden, MRA International Incorporated, Sardi Design, Moment Factory, Digital Kitchen, and Smart Monkeys, Incorporated.

The Tom Bradley International Terminal achieved a LEED Gold Certification from the US Green Building Council. The terminal renovation and expansion won a design award from THE PLAN, a Bologna-based architecture magazine.

PCAD id: 23056