Constellation Place, Modern office skyscraper in Century City, Los Angeles, United States.
Constellation Place is a 35-story, 492-foot (150 m) office tower in Century City, Los Angeles, designed by Johnson Fain Partners and completed in 2003. Its broad facade is curved rather than flat, with a grid of rectangular glass windows set between pale vertical and horizontal mullions. The building contains 700,000 sq ft (65,000 m2) of Class A office space, and its lower third has extra-large floors.
The building was completed in 2003 and was the first major high-rise project in 21st-century Los Angeles. It initially served as the headquarters for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, marking a turning point in Century City's modern development.
The building reflects its place in the heart of Century City, where film and media company offices concentrate. The open glass architecture allows views into interior spaces and creates a modern, transparent image for the companies working there.
The tower is a private office building with a lobby not open to the public; visitors should arrange meetings with tenants in advance. The street leading to the garage was renamed MGM Drive, and a large MGM logo once stood at the top of the building.
In 2012 Constellation Place became the first high-rise in Los Angeles to draw power from Bloom Energy Servers, fuel cells running on hydrocarbons such as natural gas. The installation can produce up to 400 kilowatts, about one third of the building's electricity. The 14th-floor lobby once held a wall of Oscar statuettes for MGM's Academy Award-winning films.
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