Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Los Angeles Biltmore is known for being an early home to the Academy Awards ceremony—the Oscars. [14] The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was founded at a luncheon banquet in the Crystal Ballroom in May 1927, when guests such as Louis B. Mayer met to discuss plans for the new organization and presenting achievement awards to colleagues in their industry.
This page was last edited on 9 December 2024, at 18:42 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.
Gas Company Tower is a 52-story, 749 ft (228.3 m) class-A office skyscraper on Bunker Hill in downtown Los Angeles, California.Located on the north side of Fifth Street between Grand Avenue and Olive Street, across from the Biltmore Hotel, the building serves as the headquarters for the Southern California Gas Company, which vacated its previous offices on Eighth- and Flower-streets in 1991 ...
The county of Los Angeles has tentatively agreed to buy the prominent office skyscraper near the historic Millennium Biltmore Hotel for $215 million in a foreclosure sale that could take months to ...
The Gitelson Building was built in 1917 as a utilitarian two-story commercial office and retail structure. Originally featuring a brick exterior, the building was remodeled in the 1920s to a stylish Spanish Colonial Revival design, but all ornament has since been removed.
The hotel is one of the nine luxury hotels operated by the Dorchester Collection, [1] which is owned by the Brunei Investment Agency (BIA). [2] The hotel has a total of 103 rooms, 45 of which are suites. [3] The Bel-Air hotel has an overall old Hollywood style and is surrounded by 12 acres (4.9 ha) of gardens in the Bel-Air Estates neighborhood ...
Petersen Building, built in 1929, was designed by the architectural firm Meyer & Holler, [1] the same firm responsible for many of Hollywood's most notable landmarks, including Hollywood First National and the Chinese and Egyptian theatres. [3]
Hotel Figueroa (also the Figueroa Hotel, colloquially The Fig) is a hotel building in the South Park district of Downtown Los Angeles.Originally opened as a hostelry exclusive to women, the hotel underwent a transformation into a Moroccan-themed space in the 1970s before being restored to its initial Spanish Colonial architecture in 2014.