LAX Gateway: Creating a Los Angeles Icon

Available: April 2026 Do you ever notice the look of the airport as you race to board a flight or arrive in a new city or country? In truth, the arrival to the airport, no matter how impressive its terminals, is often a bewildering mash up of signs, billboards, and service facilities. Then there’s LAX, Los Angeles International Airport, and its iconic LAX Gateway. The spectacular LAX Gateway, conceived, created, designed, and implemented by Selbert Perkins Design in collaboration with architects, engineers, landscape Architects, and lighting designers, demonstrates that the excitement of air travel can be experienced by visitors long before they reach their destinations. The triumphant story of the LAX Gateway is now documented in “the LAX Gateway-Creating a Los Angeles Icon,” a beautifully produced, lavishly illustrated, 180 page book. The LAX Gateway commands attention. Its dramatic lighted Pylons are the largest public lighting display in the world. Visible from 30,000 feet, the 28