Fox Plaza, Office skyscraper in Century City, United States.
Fox Plaza is a 34-story, 493-foot (150 m) office tower at 2121 Avenue of the Stars in Century City. Its exterior combines rust-red granite with glass panels, and the design is by Scott Johnson of Johnson Fain, with William Pereira involved before his death in 1985.
Real estate developer Marvin Davis commissioned the tower on former studio land and completed construction in 1987. After leaving office, President Ronald Reagan established his workspace on the 34th floor and used it for his post-presidential activities.
The name comes from the adjacent 20th Century Fox studio, sold by Marvin Davis to Rupert Murdoch in 1985. In Die Hard (1988) the still-unfinished tower played Nakatomi Plaza; its destruction was filmed with a scale model. For the film's 30th anniversary in 2018, a screening was held outside with the building as backdrop.
The tower is a private office building at 2121 Avenue of the Stars in Century City, so interior access is limited to tenants and their guests. Visitors can see the rust-red granite and glass exterior from the public streets and plaza around Avenue of the Stars. The 34th floor, once Ronald Reagan's office suite, is occupied by 20th Century Studios.
The tower's core holds a vertical air shaft that draws cooler outdoor air from below and pushes it to each floor's fan room, with stale air exhausted through the roof. The system relies on the stack effect, and the building's chief engineer noted in a 2018 Variety tour that the design carries many redundancies, which he linked to its use as a filming location.
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