Figueroa at Wilshire, Postmodern skyscraper in Downtown Los Angeles, United States
Figueroa at Wilshire is a 53-story office tower in downtown Los Angeles with a square base that rises to an octagonal glass crown. The building spans one million square feet of office space, including four underground levels below street level.
The building was designed by Albert C. Martin & Associates and completed in 1990 as part of downtown Los Angeles's major commercial development. Its construction marked a period when new office towers reshaped the city's skyline.
The tower opened as Sanwa Bank Plaza, named for the Japanese bank that anchored it, and was renamed Figueroa at Wilshire after Sanwa's merger. Its lobby and lower floors are used by tenants such as PricewaterhouseCoopers, Morgan Stanley and several law firms, so the ground level reads as a corporate address rather than a public landmark.
The tower occupies the block at Figueroa Street and Wilshire Boulevard in downtown Los Angeles, on the site of the former St. Paul's Episcopal Cathedral. The entrance is at street level, where the lobby and its multi-level atrium can be entered during office hours; upper floors are closed to the public.
The two soaring atriums at the street entrance are engineered to pull daylight deep into the building's interior spaces. The illuminated glass crown at night creates a glowing accent that stands out against the downtown skyline.
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