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The Century Plaza Towers are two 44-story, 571-foot (174 m) twin towers in the Century City neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. They are the tallest buildings in California outside Downtown Los Angeles and San Francisco. Commissioned by Alcoa, the towers were designed by Minoru Yamasaki and completed in 1975. [6]
Underground parking of only two levels was considered an innovative concept in 1964, when developer Louis Lesser developed a two-level underground parking structure under six 10-storey high-rise residential halls at California State University, Los Angeles, which lacked space for horizontal expansion in the 176-acre (0.71 km 2) university. The ...
The Metro Headquarters Building (or One Gateway Plaza) is a 398 ft (121 m) high rise office tower in Los Angeles, California. It is located in Northeastern Downtown Los Angeles, east across the tracks from Union Station. Completed in 1995, it serves as the main headquarters for the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
The Getty Center, in Los Angeles, California, is a campus of the Getty Museum and other programs of the Getty Trust.The $1.3 billion center opened to the public on December 16, 1997, [2] and is well known for its architecture, gardens, and views overlooking Los Angeles.
South Park Lofts, located in downtown Los Angeles, was built in 1924 as an eight-story parking garage. It was one of America's first parking structures, [2] and is one of the few parking garages listed in the National Register of Historic Places, having received the distinction in 2004. The building has been converted to lofts and is now known ...
Saladang Song was a finalist for the James Beard Foundation restaurant design awards, and it received a merit award from the Los Angeles AIA and an Honor award from the Pasadena & Foothill chapters of the American Institute of Architects. 2002 Peter Tolkin featured in Architectural Record as one of ten “vanguard” international firms.
A parking structure costs an average of $28,000 per spot, and an underground one about $56,000 per spot, excluding the cost of land. [12] Spots in downtown Los Angeles usually cost more than $50,000 per space. [14] Of the $274 million it cost to build the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, $100 million was for the underground parking ...
The neighborhood was connected by rail to Los Angeles in 1887, Paul de Longpré built its first tourist attraction in 1901, and the entire area was annexed into the city of Los Angeles in 1910. [2] Most of the Hollywood Boulevard Commercial and Entertainment District was built between 1915 and 1939, during the rapid boom of the film industry.