This is a list of buildings designed in whole or in part by architect William Pereira. They are listed by year and grouped into the three firms that Pereira belonged to. The first firm listed was based in Chicago, and the rest were in Los Angeles.
Holabird & Root / William L. Pereira 1931 Armour & Company Exhibit Building, Chicago Armour & Company Exhibit Building, San Francisco Armour & Company Exhibit Building, New York City Elgin Watch Company Industrial Plant, Chicago
1938 Lake County Tuberculosis Sanatorium, Waukegan, Illinois
1943 Pan Pacific Theatre, Los Angeles
1945
Palms Theatre, Phoenix, Arizona (with Lescher & Mahoney) (demolished)
1949
Panorama Theater, Panorama City, Los Angeles
1950 Lake County General Hospital, Hobbs, New Mexico
Pereira & Luckman (partnership with Charles Luckman)
1951 Farmers & Stockmen's Bank, Phoenix, Arizona Gibraltar Savings and Loan Headquarters, 9111 Wilshire Boulevard, Beverly Hills, California Robinson's department store, Beverly Hills (demolished) Robinson's department store (now Target), 777 E. Colorado Blvd, Pasadena, California
1952 Avco Research Center, Wilmington, Massachusetts Beverly Hills Hotel Addition, Beverly Hills Doheny Office Building, Beverly Hills Hilton Hotels headquarters, Beverly Hills Lear Industrial plant, Santa Monica Luke Air Force Base, Phoenix, Arizona
1953
CBS Television City, Los Angeles Western Hydraulics plant, Van Nuys, California
1954
Electronics and Radio Propagation Research Laboratories, Camp Pendleton, Oceanside, California KEYT Television Station, Santa Barbara, California KTTV Television Station, Los Angeles (At the time, KTTV was headquartered at Metromedia Square, which has been demolished. Pereira project details are uncertain.) National Bureau of Standards building, Boulder, Colorado Santa Rosa Hall – Dormitory, University of California, Santa Barbara United States Navy training facility, San Diego, California Wadsworth General Hospital, Veteran's Administration, Los Angeles Western Hydraulics Plant 2, Van Nuys, California William H. Block Department Store, Indianapolis WSBT Television Station, South Bend, Indiana Marineland of the Pacific, Rancho Palos Verdes, California
1955 Dormitories, Music and Science Buildings, Occidental College, Los Angeles Jet Production and Test Center, Palmdale, California Service Bureau Office Building, Los Angeles
1956
Fallbrook Hospital, Fallbrook, California General Telephone Company Administration Building, Whittier, California Hunter Engineering plant, Riverside, California Prudential Tower, Boston (early designs) Southern California School of Theology, Claremont, California (now Claremont School of Theology) United States Air Force and Naval Bases, Cádiz, Spain Braniff International Airways, Operations and Maintenance Base, Dallas, Texas
1957 First National Bank, Denver, Colorado Motion Picture Country House and Hospital, Woodland Hills, California Nellis Air Force Base buildings, Nevada
1958
Beckman Corporation plant, Newport Beach, California Berlin Hilton, Berlin, Germany Bullock's Fashion Square, Santa Ana, California (partially demolished, now Westfield MainPlace) Chrysler Sales & Service Training Center, Anaheim, California Convair Astronautics, San Diego, California Disneyland Hotel Firestone Tire company headquarters, Los Angeles Ford Aeronutronics, Newport Beach, California (demolished) General Atomic, La Jolla, California Grossmont Hospital, San Diego, California IBM headquarters, Los Angeles Los Angeles International Airport Physical Plant Building B, University of Southern California Robinson's department store, Palm Springs, California Signal Oil headquarters, Los Angeles Union Oil Center, Los Angeles (now Los Angeles Center Studios) Valley Presbyterian Hospital, Van Nuys, California
1961 Theme Building, Los Angeles International Airport, Los Angeles
William L. Pereira & Associates 1959
Automation Post Office, Washington, D.C. Carthay Circle Theatre, Hollywood Civic Center, Santa Fe Springs, California Firestone Aeronautical Research Laboratory, Caltech campus Fox Theatre, San FranciscoThe Fox Theatre was built in 1929 and demolished in 1963. It is unclear what Pereira & Luckman worked on. Hoffman Science Center, Santa Barbara, California Hollywood Motion Picture and Television Museum (unbuilt) Lear Corporation, Goleta, California Linda Island homes, Newport Beach, California Los Angeles Zoo Prudential Savings and Loan building, Salt Lake City Rosenweig Commercial Center, Phoenix, Arizona San Diego International Airport Vogue Theatre, Hollywood
1960 Biltmore Hotel, Santa Barbara, California Children's Theatre Arts Center, Los Angeles Communications School and Recreation Complex, Loyola University, Los Angeles Del E. Webb residence, Mission Bay, California Ford Aeronutronics, Newport Beach, California (demolished 1996) Fox Hills Home Savings and Loan, Fox Hills, California General Atomics headquarters, Sorrento Valley, California General Telephone Research Laboratories, Palo Alto, California Otis College of Art & Design, Los Angeles
1961 Library, Santa Fe Springs, California Pereira Residence, Los Angeles Physical Sciences Building, University of Southern California Prudential Savings and Loan #2, Salt Lake City
1962 Hunt Branch Library, Fullerton, California Prudential Savings and Loan, 49 N Main Street, Butte, Montana
1963 Columbia Records pressing plant, Santa Maria, California Continental Savings and Loan, Montebello, California Gene Donovan residence, Salt Lake City Gibraltar Savings and Loan, San Marino, California Metropolitan Water District building, Victor Heights, Los AngelesVincent, Roger (October 2014) "Holy Hill church selling Sunset Boulevard property near downtown L.A." Los Angeles Times Olin Hall of Engineering, University of Southern California Otis Chandler residence, San Marino, California Union Bank, Pasadena, California Ventura Bank and Office Building, 250 S. Mills Road, Ventura, California West Covina Country Club and Apartments, West Covina, California
1964 ABC Paramount Theatres headquarters, Los Angeles Ahmanson Center for Biological Research, University of Southern California Art Building, Occidental College, Los Angeles Arthur Coons Center, Occidental College, Los Angeles Beacon Street Apartments, Santa Catalina Island, California Clementine Avenue Townhouses, Santa Catalina Island, California David Bright residence Descanso Canyon Hotel, Santa Catalina Island, California Douglas Aircraft Research Laboratory, Huntington Beach, California (demolished 2021) Gibraltar Savings and Loan, Baldwin Hills, California Harris Fine Arts Center, Brigham Young University Provo, Utah International Motion Pictures studio, San Juan, Puerto Rico Laguna Playhouse, Laguna Beach, California Union Bank, Fullerton, California Prudential Federal Savings, Salt Lake City, Utah
1965
AT&T Center, Los Angeles (previously headquarters for the Transamerica Corporation) Avalon Townhouses, Santa Catalina Island, California Bank of California, Orange, California Civic Center, San Dimas, California Communications Building, Los Angeles City College Community Building, Santa Fe Springs, California Cord Residence, Reno, Nevada Dickson Art Center, University of California, Los Angeles Ferris Rehearsal Hall, University of Southern California Gildread Theatre, Mexico City Golden West College, Huntington Beach, California Harris Fine Arts Center, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah Howard Johnson Plaza Hotel, Anaheim, California Hotel Ivoire, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire International Clubs headquarters, Los Angeles Los Angeles County Museum of Art (demolished 2020) Pepsi plant, Santa Ana, California University of California, Irvine campus (infrastructure, campus layout, and early buildings) Central Plant Crawford Hall Gateway Study Center Humanities Hall Murray Krieger Hall Jack Langson Library Mesa Court (phase 1) Howard A. Schneiderman Lecture Hall Edward A. Steinhaus Hall Unocal 76 gas station, Beverly Hills, California (designed by Gin Wong)
1966 John Stauffer Hall of Science, University of Southern California North American Aviation, Santa Catalina Island, California Robertson Plaza, Beverly Hills, California Seaquarium, Atlantic City, New Jersey Wilshire County Country Club, Los Angeles
1967
400 Tower, Newport Center, Newport Beach, California 611 Place, Los Angeles City Hall, Miami, Florida Civic Center, Newport Beach, California Council Chamber and City Hall, Cypress, California Eddie Martin Terminal, John Wayne Airport, Santa Ana, California (demolished 1994) Fine Arts Building, University of Vermont Fort St. Vrain Nuclear Power Plant, Denver, Colorado Fremont Junior College Hall of Science, University of Southern California Hoffman Electronics headquarters, Santa Barbara, California Hollywood Communications Center, Hollywood Horticulture Building and Greenhouse, University of California, Irvine Litton Industries headquarters, Santa Catalina Island, California Rio de Janeiro International Airport, Brazil
Robinson's, Fashion Island, Newport Beach, California Robinson's, La Cumbre Plaza, Santa Barbara, California Tunis Airport, Tunisia United States Navy Defense Office Complex, Washington, D.C. USC Marine Science Center, Santa Catalina Island, California Vivian Hall, University of Southern California William Pereira's own house, Los Angeles World Airways Terminal, Los Angeles International Airport
1968
American Red Cross Chapel, Los Angeles Anderson Hills Shopping Center, Williams, California Bethany Heights Condominiums Don Muang Airport, Thailand Geneva Presbyterian Church, Laguna Hills, California Kona Bishop Hotel, Kona, Hawaii Law Building, University of Southern California Lockheed Power Plant, Palmdale, California Occidental Life Insurance Company headquarters, Los Angeles Rye Canyon Science Laboratory, Palmdale, California Santa Ana Cinema, Santa Ana, California New England Center, University of New Hampshire
1969
500/550 Twin Towers, Newport Center, Newport Beach, California Amfac Center, Ontario, Canada Buena Park Library, Buena Park, California Bunker Hill Towers, Los Angeles Camp Pendleton Hospital, Camp Pendleton, California Great Western Savings and Loan, Los Angeles H.S. Pogue Department Store, Cincinnati, Ohio JC Penney, San Diego Robinson's Department Store, Fashion Valley Mall, San Diego, California Mutual Benefit Life Building, Cincinnati, Ohio Pan Am Terminal, Honolulu International Airport San Nicolas Place, Newport Center, Newport Beach, California Seaver Science Center, University of Southern California
1970
Civic Center and Auditorium, Inglewood, California Fine Arts Complex, University of California, Irvine (now the Claire Trevor School of the Arts) Art Studios Music Building Art Gallery (now the Beall Center for Art and Technology) Drama Building Sculpture and Ceramic Studios (now the Nixon Theatre) Orchestra Rehearsal Hall Production Studio Concert Hall (now Winifred Smith Hall) Studio Theatre Village Theatre (now the Claire Trevor Theatre) Geisel Library, University of California, San Diego Hollywood Park Hotel and Office Complex, Hollywood J.C. Penney, Sacramento, California J.C. Penney, Honolulu, Hawaii J.C. Penney, San Bernardino, California New England Center, University of New Hampshire, Durham Scripps Clinic, San Diego Studio Theatre, Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C. St. Vincent's Hospital, Santa Fe, New Mexico Texas Industrial Laundries, Corpus Christi
1971
5900 Wilshire Tower, Los Angeles (designed by Gin Wong) Bank of America, Whittier, California Eastern Airlines Terminal, Atlanta International Airport Harbor Justice Center, Irvine, California Hawaii Loa College, Oahu, Hawaii Library, University of Cincinnati