Los Angeles-based Tower General Contractors will begin renovating the historic LAX Theme Building, a 1961 Los Angeles landmark structure, next month and expects to have work completed in August 2009.
Over the years water intrusion made its way through the lath and plaster that covered the steel structure until pieces of metal mesh began to fall off the building.Los Angeles World Airports, the agency that owns the structure, took emergency abatement measures and stripped the building to its steel superstructure.
More than 1,000 pieces of 1/8th-inch-thick metal plates—10 tons, or 3,000 linear feet, worth—will be placed over the legs and welded together to form an exterior metal skin, Alex Guerrero, executive vice president of Tower tells Globest."The eyes of all of Los Angeles are on this project," he says.
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