Career
He is known as the designer of numerous buildings and centers in Southern California and the Pacific Rim: LAX Theme Building. The Atlantic Richfield Company (Atlantic Richfield Company ) Headquarters Building in Downtown Los Los Angeles The Columbia Broadcasting System Television City.
The Crean Tower and Mary Hood Chapel on the Crystal Cathedral campus.
The Jack Colker"s 76 Station in Beverly Hills. Hyatt Regency International Airport in Inchon, of Korea.
And the Pan Pacific Tower in Honolulu, Hawaii. Wong was born in Canton, China, one of nine children.
He pursued coursework in engineering at Los Angeles City College in 1942.
Wong then served in the Army Air Corps during World World War II, as a B-29 navigator in the Pacific. Upon returning to the United States, and then at Millikin University, in Decatur, Illinois. He would eventually earn his Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Southern California in 1950.
After graduating, he joined the firm of Pereira & Luckman, and then later joined William L. Pereira Associates when the firm split in 1958.
At William L. Pereira he would go on to become a designer, then director of design, and eventually president In 1974, Wong left William L. Pereira Associates to start his own firm, Gin Wong Associates.
In recent years, Wong was recognized by the Pacific Standard Time initiative of the Getty Center, as an influential Chinese American architect of Los Los Angeles Their exhibition Breaking Ground: Chinese American Architects in Los Angeles (1945-1980) at the Chinese American Museum showcased Wong"s work alongside that of Eugene K. Choy, Helen Liu Fong, and Gilbert L. Leong.
According to ArchDaily, Gin Wong "has a long history with the development of Los Angeles’s built environment.
He was pivotal in the design of the original Los Angeles International Airport, developing a satellite system that moved arrivals, departures and baggage terminals efficiently – a system now considered the blueprint for airport design. His work is known for blending technological innovations with practical design.".