City National Plaza is a twin tower skyscraper complex on South Flower Street in western Downtown Los Angeles, California. It was originally named ARCO Plaza upon opening in 1972.
History
Richfield Tower
The present complex is on the site of the landmark Richfield Tower, that was designed in the Art Deco style by Morgan, Walls & Clements, and completed in 1929. It was the headquarters of the Atlantic Richfield Oil company. It was destroyed in 1969.
ARCO Plaza
The current skyscraper complex was built as the ARCO Plaza, with a pair of 213.1 m (699 ft) 52-story office towers. One became the new world headquarters for the Atlantic Richfield Company (ARCO), the present day The Paul Hastings Tower. An underground shopping complex was accessed by open escalators from the street level plaza.
Upon completion in 1972, the ARCO Plaza towers were the tallest buildings in the city for one year before being overtaken by Aon Center, and were the tallest twin towers in the world until the completion of the World Trade Center in New York City. The towers are the tallest twin buildings in the United States outside of New York City.
The towers are constructed of steel frames covered with polished panels of forest green granite and panes of bronze glass.
City National Plaza
The ARCO Plaza complex was renamed City National Plaza, and the two towers were renamed City National Tower and Paul Hastings Tower.
Tenants
"Jewel Box"
- Gensler--architecture firm.
Paul Hastings Tower
- Crowell & Moring
- McGladrey
- Grant Thornton
- Northwestern Mutual - Los Angeles
- Paul Hastings
- Regus
- Thomas Properties Group
City National Bank Tower
- City National Bank
- AECOM
- Foley & Lardner
- Fulbright & Jaworski
- Jones Day
- Kroll
- Squire Patton Boggs
- Turner Construction
In popular culture
- Featured throughout the 1971 movie The Omega Man, which was filmed during the Plaza's construction phase.
- Plaza area and water sculpture featured in the 1976 film, Marathon Man.
- The north "Paul Hastings" tower was depicted as being struck by an air-to-air Sidewinder missile (a shot which utilized a detailed miniature of both towers), in the 1983 film, Blue Thunder.
- In the 2015 film San Andreas, the twin towers were shown swaying violently during and earthquake and in a later shot, the Paul Hastings tower was shown falling on the City National Tower.
Gallery
See also
- Richfield Tower
- List of tallest buildings in Los Angeles
References
Further reading
- Cameron, Robert (1990). Above Los Angeles. San Francisco: Cameron & Company. ISBN 0-918684-48-X.
External links
- Official City National Plaza website
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