Type Office Height 40 m Owner Tribune Media | Completed 1935 Opened 1935 Architect Gordon Kaufmann | |
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Location 202 West 1st Street
Los Angeles, California
United States Similar Little Tokyo, Los Angeles City Hall, Parker Center, Universal Studios Hollywood, Bradbury Building | ||
The Los Angeles Times Building is an art deco building in Times Mirror Square at 1st and Spring Streets in Los Angeles, California. It is the headquarters of the Los Angeles Times and was designed by Gordon B. Kaufmann.
Map of Los Angeles Times Building, Los Angeles, CA 90012, USA
In 1935, when the first part of the building was opened, Harry Chandler, then the president and general manager of Times-Mirror Co., declared the building a "monument to the progress of our city and Southern California".
The building, despite its historic and architecturally significant appearance, appears not to be listed as a historic landmark. It does not appear in listings of Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments, California Historical Landmarks, or U.S. Registered Historic Landmarks in Los Angeles.
The LA Times complex is the site of two previous city halls and the current city hall is on an adjacent block:
A new underground light rail station will open on the 2nd Street side of the building when construction of the Regional Connector Transit Corridor is completed. That factors into the consideration to restore the building as described in a master plan that includes the construction of new buildings on the site. Four other buildings were added to Times Mirror Square over the decades and the site is underused, with vacant space being used for movie shoots.