Detail View: Design Library Image Collection: Century Plaza Towers

Accession Number: 
169300
Order Title: 
Archivision Addition Module FOUR--6,080 images
Type of View: 
partialView
View Title: 
General view looking up, showing the twin towers, looking west, with 2000 Avenue of the Stars in view at the lower center
Date of View: 
7/17/2007
Image Rights: 
¿ Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
Source Institution: 
Archivision, Inc.
Collection: 
Addition Module FOUR
Culture: 
American
Work Types: 
Architecture; commercial / industrial structures; office buildings
Work Types: 
buildings; multistory buildings; high-rise buildings; skyscrapers
Preferred Title: 
Century Plaza Towers
Agent Display: 
Minoru Yamasaki (American architect, 1912-1986)
Date: 
1969-1975 (creation)
Materials: 
steel; glass; aluminum
Technique: 
construction (assembling)
Measurement: 
571 ft (height, each 44-storey tower)
Alternate Title: 
Century Plaza Towers I and II
Locations: 
Century City (Los Angeles, Calif.), Los Angeles, California, United States
Location Type: 
(site)
Style/Period: 
International Style (modern European architecture style)
Style/Period: 
Twentieth century
Classification: 
Architecture