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Gateway West Building

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Status
  
Demolished

Completed
  
1963

Opened
  
1963

Architectural style
  
International Style

Construction started
  
December 1961

Type
  
Office

Floor count
  
13

Floors
  
13

Demolished
  
2015

Architect
  
Welton Becket

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Location
  
1801 Avenue of the Stars, Century City, Los Angeles, California

Floor area
  
250,000 sq ft (23,000 m)

Similar
  
Century City Medical P, Constellation Place, Westfield Century City, Mark Taper Forum, 100 Summer Street

Gateway West Building was a skyscraper in Century City, Los Angeles, California.

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Map of Gateway West Building, 1801 Avenue of the Stars, Los Angeles, CA 90067, USA

Location

The Gateway West Building was located on the southwest corner of Santa Monica Boulevard and the Avenue of the Stars in Century City, a suburb of Los Angeles.

History

Completed in 1963, Gateway West was the first building erected in Century City—an architectural plan that converted the back lot of 20th Century Fox into a modern neighbourhood with skyscrapers. Designed in the International Style by renowned architect Welton Becket (1902-1969), it was 173.56 feet (52.90 m) high and had a façade made of aluminum.

Gateway West was demolished in 2015 to make way for an expansion of Westfield Century City.

Heritage significance

As the first high-rise building erected in Century City, this building represented the new style of the neighbourhood.

References

Gateway West Building Wikipedia