Gas Company Tower, Corporate skyscraper in Downtown Los Angeles, United States.
The Gas Company Tower is a 52-story, 749 ft (228.3 m) class-A office skyscraper on Bunker Hill in downtown Los Angeles. Its main facade is a dense grid of small square dark blue windows separated by light gray mullions, with a vertical rectangular notch recessed near the upper left and a second darker recessed section lower on the same facade. The right side is clad in dark, near-black panels forming a separate vertical band.
The tower was completed in 1991 by the architecture firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill as part of an air rights exchange involving Maguire Partners and the Central Library. This arrangement allowed for strategic urban development in downtown Los Angeles.
The lobby appears in the opening scene of the 1994 film Speed and also in the 2001 film Vanilla Sky. The building is the headquarters of the Southern California Gas Company, which moved there from its Eighth and Flower streets offices in 1991. Los Angeles County employees also work in the tower.
The tower stands on the north side of Fifth Street between Grand Avenue and Olive Street, across from the Biltmore Hotel, in downtown Los Angeles. The lobby, seen in the opening scene of the 1994 film Speed, is the part of the interior a passer-by can step into. The building is an office tower, so upper floors are not open to the public.
The lobby appears in the opening scene of the 1994 film Speed and also in Vanilla Sky (2001). In 2014 Deloitte became the first tenant to put its logo at the building's peak, which had stayed plain since completion.
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