The most prominent feature here is a verdigris-coated spire that rises two hundred forty-one feet above a five-story, buff-hued terra cotta structure. This is the Bullocks Wilshire Building, a masterwork of Art Deco design completed in…
Wilshire Boulevard Architecture
This stroll down Wilshire Boulevard showcases the dramatic architectural evolution of Koreatown, from iconic Art Deco landmarks to striking Brutalist and Mid-Century designs.
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1. Southwestern Law School
2. One Park Plaza
One Park Plaza is a twenty-two-story office tower distinguished by a bronze-colored glass skin and protruding, tower-like corners. Completed in nineteen seventy-one for the developer Realtech Company, it stands at three thousand two…
3. The Equitable Building
The Equitable Building rises thirty-four stories above Wilshire Boulevard, recognizable by a facade of precast concrete panels sandblasted to reveal the light beige limestone aggregate beneath. Completed in nineteen sixty-nine, the…
4. 3550 Wilshire Blvd
Three thousand five hundred fifty Wilshire Boulevard is a twenty-story glass tower that rises above the surrounding Koreatown district. Completed in nineteen sixty-eight as Paramount Plaza, the structure was designed as a high-rise office…
5. St. Basil Catholic Church
St. Basil Catholic Church rises from the corner of Wilshire Boulevard and Kingsley Drive like an ancient, angular fortress. Its Brutalist design consists of twelve irregular concrete towers with a rough, aggregate finish that bristles with…
6. The Wilshire Colonnade
The Wilshire Colonnade is defined by its two mirror-image, eleven-story office towers that curve toward one another to form a broken horseshoe. Completed in nineteen seventy, the complex is faced entirely in travertine, while the central…
7. The Wiltern
The Wiltern is instantly recognizable by the blue-green glazed terra-cotta tiles that sheath its twelve-story facade. This Art Deco landmark, situated at the intersection of Wilshire Boulevard and Western Avenue, rises from a site that was…