Pellissier Building and Wiltern Theatre, Art Deco theater and office tower in Koreatown, Los Angeles, United States

The Pellissier Building is a 12-story steel-reinforced concrete office tower clad in blue-green glazed terra-cotta, set diagonally at Wilshire Boulevard and Western Avenue. It rises from a two-story pedestal holding ground-floor shops and the Wiltern Theatre entrance, with narrow vertical windows that make the tower appear taller. The theatre interior by G. Albert Lansburgh features a ceiling sunburst whose rays are each an Art Deco skyscraper.

Designed by Stiles O. Clements of Morgan, Walls & Clements, the complex opened in 1931 as the Warner Brothers Western Theater, a vaudeville and movie flagship. It closed a year later and reopened in the mid-1930s as the Wiltern Theatre, named for Wilshire and Western. Sold in 1956, it decayed until preservationists blocked two demolition permits in the late 1970s; Wayne Ratkovich and architect Brenda Levin restored it, and the theatre reopened on May 1, 1985.

The venue shifted from showing films to hosting live music performances, becoming a gathering place for audiences interested in diverse musical styles.

The Wiltern Theatre stands at the southeast corner of Wilshire Boulevard and Western Avenue, directly across from the Wilshire/Western Station on the Metro D Line. The entrance is set back from the sidewalk, with the ticket booth reached among terrazzo paving between the vertical neon signs.

The auditorium ceiling carries a sunburst whose rays are each drawn as a small Art Deco skyscraper, G. Albert Lansburgh's projection of Wilshire Boulevard's future. When the theatre opened it held the largest theatre pipe organ in the western United States, a 37-rank Kimball later restored by local organ enthusiasts.