Description:
The Sydney Airport is an important location for numerous scenes in the first season of Lost. It is, of course, from here that Flight 811 leaves on its doomed flight to Los Angeles.
Instead of traveling to Sydney, Australia, however, Lost utilized the beautiful new Hawaii Convention Center as its set for the Sydney Airport.
The glass-front center opened in 1998 and features bold architecture, a $2 million Hawaiian art collection, and features such as a rooftop tropical garden, glass-encased meeting rooms and outdoor function spaces lined with giant palm trees. The architects of the design/build team - Loschky, Marquardt and Nesholm; and Wimberly, Allison, Tong and Goo - gave special attention to the idea of relating the building to its Waikiki environment and Hawaii's history and culture.
Volunteers conduct tours through the Center for groups of 10 or more by appointment only.
One-hour tours can be arranged on Wednesday and Thursday at 9 a.m. and 11 a.m. You can, however, usually walk into the foyer area and escalator area where scenes from Lost were filmed.
The Hawaii Convention Center is located at 1801 Kalakaua Avenue in Honolulu right near the border of Honolulu and Waikiki.