LAX – 1952 – Pereira and Luckman Everyone loves to hate the banal drudgery of Los Angeles International Airport, or LAX. But the original design by its architects, Pereira and Luckman, would have inspired awe. Its centerpiece was a multi-storey, glass-clad dome containing every terminal for the now-scattered complex. Emerging from its periphery were six elevated ‘fingers’ designed to whisk passengers to their planes. The plan died because the city’s building department found it too radical, the cost of air-conditioning would have been exorbitant, and the airlines wanted their own terminals