Downtown Los Angeles Photos |
Modern architecture & skyscrapers define LA today, most of which cluster around Bunker Hill. |
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| See also: Los Angeles & Orange Counties, Pershing Square Area Heritage Architecture in LA, Heritage Broadway Architecture in LA, Los Angeles Civic Center Area |
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| Skyline of downtown from hills above Hollywood with round Capitol Records building in foreground. | Skyline of downtown skyscrapers: Gas Company Tower, First Interstate World Center, California Plaza & others. | LA skyline above Pershing Square. | LA skyline above Pershing Square & Biltmore Hotel. |
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| LA skyline above Pershing Square. | First Interstate World Center & Gas Company Tower above Pershing Square. | First Interstate World Center (1988-90) (633 West Fifth Street) 73 floors. Style: Postmodern. Architect: I.M. Pei & Partners. | Crown of First Interstate World Center (aka US Bank Tower). |
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| Terraces of First Interstate World Center. | Gas Company Tower (1988-91) (555 West Fifth Street) 52 floors. Style: Postmodern. Architect: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. | Gas Company Tower summit with ship-shaped crown. | Gas Company Tower & Two California Plaza above Biltmore Hotel. |
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| US Bank, Gas Company & Two California Plaza Towers above Biltmore Hotel. | Bunker Hill steps (1989-90) with flowing water channel opposite Los Angeles Public Library. Architect: Lawrence Halprin. | Citigroup Center (formerly Wells Fargo building) (1979) (444 South Flower Street) 48 floors. Architect: Albert C. Martin Partners. | Citigroup Center terraced surface. |
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| California Bank & Trust building (1991) (550 South Hope Street) 28 floors. Architect: Langdon Wilson + Kohn Pedersen Fox Assoc. | Bonaventure Hotel (1974-6) (5th & Figueroa Streets). Architect: John Portman & Assoc. | Bonaventure Hotel clusters five cylinders. | Bonaventure Hotel against Union Bank Plaza. |
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| Union Bank Plaza (1968) (445 South Figueroa Street) 40 floors. Architect: Albert C. Martin Partners. | Manulife Plaza (1981-2) (515 South Figueroa Street) 21 floors. Architect: Albert C. Martin Partners. | Statue of bears fishing by Christopher Keene at Manulife Plaza. | Manulife Plaza & hexagonal Figueroa at Wilshire building. |
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| Figueroa at Wilshire building (1990) (former Sanwa Bank Plaza) (601 South Figueroa Street) 53 floors. Architect: Albert C. Martin Partners. | Figueroa at Wilshire building facade. | Figueroa at Wilshire building atrium. | Wedburn or 1000 Wilshire Building (1984-7) 8 floors. Style: Postmodern. Architect: Kohn Pedersen Fox Assoc. |
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| Arched gateway to 1000 Wilshire Building. | Lamp details of 1000 Wilshire Building. | Tiled facade of Figueroa Tower (1989) (660 South Figueroa Street) 24 floors. Architect: Albert C. Martin Partners. | Figueroa Tower decorative tiles. |
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| Figueroa Tower clock corner detail. | Colored design of Figueroa Tower. | 777 Tower with Ernst & Young Plaza on South Figueroa Street. | Ernst & Young Plaza (1985) (725 South Figueroa Street) 42 floors. Architect: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. |
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| Shopping arcade under circular metal frame canopy at Ernst & Young Plaza. | Fig 7 shopping arcade at Ernst & Young Plaza. | 777 Tower (1991) (777 South Figueroa Street) 52 Floors. Architect: Cesar Pelli. | 801 Tower & 777 Tower on South Figueroa Street. |
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| 801 Tower (1992) (801 South Figueroa Street) 24 floors. Architect: Architects Collaborative. | Artistic entrance of 801 Tower. | 801 Tower sculpture details. | 611 Place (1967) (611 West 6th Street) 42 floors over Pacific Center. Architect: William L. Pereira & Assoc. |
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| International Jewelry Center (1979-81) (550 South Hill Street) 16 floors. Architect: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. | Lamp stand of downtown Los Angeles. | Dual lamp stand of downtown Los Angeles. | Shooting a movie in downtown Los Angeles. |
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