Type Office tower; hospital Opened 1969 | Completed 1969 | |
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Architectural style Late Modern architecture Similar Gateway West Building, Constellation Place, Petronas Towers, Bank of America Corporat, Gran Torre Santiago | ||
The Century City Medical Plaza is a landmark set of two buildings in Century City, Los Angeles, California.
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Location
The building is located at 2070-2080 Century Park East in Century City, on the West side of Los Angeles in California.
History
It was designed in the Late Modern architectural style by architects Anthony J. Lumsden and César Pelli. Construction was completed in 1969. It is made up of two buildings: a seventeen-story office tower, and a ten-story hospital. The plaza originally housed Century City Hospital, which was owned by Tenet Healthcare Corporation. Tenet closed the hospital in 2004 as it sold it to Salus Surgical Group. The hospital was renamed as Century City Doctors Hospital, which closed in 2008 after filing for bankruptcy.
Heritage significance
The two buildings resemble two large black boxes made of skin glass. The mullions are reversed, thus playing on the idea of deconstructing the traditional architectural feature of columns. They were the first two buildings to be entirely enclosed in glass skin. This architectural style became a feature of "corporate architecture" for the next twenty years.