Designed by the Los Angeles architectural firm Wurdeman and Becket, which later designed the Los Angeles Music Center and the space-age "Theme Building" at Los Angeles International Airport, the Pan-Pacific Auditorium opened to a fanfare of [Boy Scout bugles on May 18, 1935 for a 16-day model home exhibition. Noted as one of the finest examples of Streamline Moderne architecturein the United States, the green and white facade faced west, was 228 feet (69 m) long and had four stylized towers and flagpoles meant to evoke upswept aircraft fins. Industrial designer Norman Bel Geddes was reported to have been a consultant on the building's design in 1934. The widely known and much photographed facade belied a modest rectilinear wooden structure resembling an overgrown gymnasium inside and out.