Type Commercial offices Completed 1983 | Floor count Tower I: 54; Tower II: 45 Construction started 1981 | |
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Alternative names Crocker Center
Crocker Center North & South
Wells Fargo Center I & II
IBM Tower Roof Tower I: 220.37 m (723.0 ft)
Tower II: 170.69 m (560.0 ft) Floor area Tower I: 1,391,000 sq ft (129,200 m)
Tower II: 1,140,000 sq ft (106,000 m) Lifts/elevators Tower I: 29
Tower II: 26 Developer Maguire Properties
Thomas Properties Group Location 333 S. Grand Avenue; Los Angeles, California Owner Brookfield Office Properties Architect Skid, Owings & Merrill Similar Bank of America Plaza, Two California Plaza, Gas Company Tower, One California Plaza, 777 Tower | ||
Wells Fargo Center is a twin tower skyscraper complex in Downtown Los Angeles on Bunker Hill, in Los Angeles, California. It comprises South and North towers, which are joined by a three-story glass atrium.
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The project received the 1986–1987 and 2003-2004 Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA) Office Building of the Year Award, and numerous others. A branch of the Wells Fargo History Museum is located at the center.
Wells Fargo Tower
Wells Fargo Tower (Tower I), at 220 m (720 ft) it is the tallest building of the complex. It has 54 floors and it is the 7th tallest building in Los Angeles, and the 92nd-tallest building in the United States. When it opened in 1983, it was known as the Crocker Tower, named after San Francisco-based Crocker National Bank. Crocker merged with Wells Fargo in 1986.
During initial construction it was featured in the 1983 film, Blue Thunder, and the top upper floors were not completed during filming, so Roy Scheider's character shot a helicopter chasing him from the unfinished top floor.
South Tower
South Tower (Tower II) is 171 m (561 ft), and was completed in 1983 with 45 floors. It is the 17th tallest building in the city.
Fredric Jameson
Cultural critic Fredric Jameson used Skidmore, Owings and Merrill's Crocker Bank Center (as it was then named) as an example of what he sees as Postmodern architecture's "depthlessness":