611 Place
| 611 Place | |
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  Location within the Los Angeles metropolitan area  611 Place (California)  611 Place (the United States) | |
| Alternative names | 611 West 6th Street AT&T Center Crocker-Citizen Plaza |
| General information | |
| Type | Commercial offices |
| Architectural style | Modernism |
| Location | 611 West 6th Street Los Angeles, California |
| Coordinates | 34°02′57″N 118°15′20″W / 34.04905°N 118.255619°W |
| Construction started | 1967 |
| Completed | 1969 |
| Height | |
| Roof | 189 m (620 ft) |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 42 |
| Floor area | 715,463 sq ft (66,468.7 m2) |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect(s) | William L. Pereira & Associates |
| Developer | Chetrit Group |
| Structural engineer | Brandow & Johnston Inc |
| Main contractor | Dinwiddie Construction |
| References | |
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611 Place is a 189 m (620 ft) skyscraper at 611 West 6th Street in Downtown Los Angeles, California, designed by William L. Pereira & Associates and completed in 1969. The building was commissioned by the now-defunct Crocker Citizen's Bank, and served as its Southern California headquarters until 1983, when it moved to Crocker Center, now Wells Fargo Center (Los Angeles). It was subsequently bought by AT&T. It was the tallest building in Los Angeles upon completion, and the first building to surpass Los Angeles City Hall in terms of structural height (many buildings had surpassed City Hall with decorative spires, the first being Richfield Tower). It consists of a cross-shaped tower clad in vertical aluminum beams, and supported on its west side by an immense, blank slab of concrete running the entire height of the building, which is used to display corporate logos.
The building has appeared in movies: The Day After Tomorrow where it appeared in shots of Manhattan, and later in Along Came Polly, where it was the starting point of an ill-fated BASE jump. 611 Place is also destroyed by an earthquake in the 2000 movie Epicenter. In the 1997 film Con Air the building be seen from an aerial view and street view as a dead body falls from an aircraft and lands on a car near the base of the building in the city of Fresno, California.
See also
References
- ^ "611 Place". CTBUH Skyscraper Center.
- ^ 611 Place at Emporis
- ^ 611 Place at Glass Steel and Stone (archived)
- ^ "611 Place". SkyscraperPage.
- ^ 611 Place at Structurae
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