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The Los Angeles International Airport’s Theme Building. Mr. Wong is credited with creating the startling, spider-like structure.
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Gin Wong
Died on September 1, 2017 at age 94
Mr. Wong was a Chinese-born architect whose modernist designs helped define the postwar landscape of Los Angeles in structures as diverse as a gas station, CBS Television City and Los Angeles International Airport.
Notable Deaths 2017
Remembering Mary Tyler Moore, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lewis, David Rockefeller, Trisha Brown, Glen Campbell, Dick Gregory, Edith Windsor, Sam Shepard, Tom Petty and many others who died this year.