AT&T Center
- Architect
- William Pereira
- Year
- 1965
- Style
- International Style
- City
- Los Angeles, CA
The AT&T Center, later known as USC Tower, is a 32-story, 453-foot skyscraper built in 1965 to house the offices and computer center of the Occidental Life Insurance Company. Designed by William Pereira & Associates in the International Style, it anchored a 12-acre development called Occidental Center, now known as South Park Center.
the building
The Tower restaurant. For two decades, from the 1960s through the 1980s, the building's top floor held The Tower, a restaurant that served award-winning French cuisine with sweeping views over downtown Los Angeles.
Occidental Center campus. The tower was the centerpiece of a 12-acre corporate campus that also included two other large office buildings, three parking decks with 3,500 spaces, and a corner lot at Eleventh and Olive, all connected as a single Occidental Life development.
the style
Pereira's design is a straightforward International Style tower, a sheer glass-and-steel volume without the historicist ornament that defined earlier Los Angeles skyscrapers, reflecting the corporate confidence of a 1960s insurance giant building its own headquarters.
More on International Stylesignificance
When it opened in 1965, the tower was the second-tallest building in Los Angeles, behind only City Hall. It is now the 45th-tallest building in the city.
nearby
- Los Angeles Herald Examiner Building
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