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View from 5th Street - 2006-4-13 (454280)
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Identification
Official name US Bank Tower
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Emporis Building Number 116498
 
Location
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Bordering street #1 South Hope Street
Bordering street #2 West 5th Street
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Zone Central Business District
District Central City
City Los Angeles
State California
Country U.S.A.
 
Technical Data
Height (struct.) 310 m 1,018 ft
Floors (OG) 73
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Construction start *
Construction end 1989
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Building in General
Type of construction skyscraper
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Status completed

Facts
- The glass crown on top is brightly illuminated at night.
- The Bunker Hill Steps, a variation of Rome's Spanish Steps, wrap around the west side of the base, leading up to Bunker Hill.
- When completed, became the tallest building on the Pacific coast, surpassing Columbia Center in Seattle.
- Tallest building in the United States west of the Mississippi River.
- The building was designed to withstand an earthquake of 8.3 on the Richter Scale.
- The tower has 4 glass-crowned setbacks, at the 48th, 57th, 61st, and 69th floor levels.
- The highest helipad in the world is on the roof.
- Until US Bancorp committed to a major lease with naming rights in March 2003, the building was named Library Tower after the Los Angeles Central Library across the street.
- First building to be destroyed by alien invaders in the 1996 movie "Independence Day".
- The central core structure has a frame that is reinforced in two directions.
- The façade, consisting of granite strips alternating with rectangular windows each 6.4 m (21 ft) long, is also designed to endure deformations of up to 6.35 cm (2.5 inch) per floor.
- From the 53rd floor up, horizontal forces caused by wind or earthquakes are dampened by two struts, which are each one floor high.
- Upon completion this became the tallest building in the world located in a major seismic region; it has since been surpassed by Taipei 101.

News
- Library Tower in Los Angeles was sold (2002-05-07 21:01:00)

Companies involved in this Building*
Design architect: Pei Cobb Freed & Partners , Ellerbe Becket, Inc.

Other companies: Maguire Properties, Inc., Maguire Properties, Inc., Maguire Properties, Inc., Turner Construction Company, CBM Engineers, James A Knowles & Associates, Curtain Wall Design and Consulting, Inc., Flour City International, Inc., Lawrence Halprin & Associates, Lighting Design Alliance, Flour City International, Inc., ACCO Engineered Systems, Certified Environments, Inc., Curtain Wall Design and Consulting, Inc., Sako & Associates, Otis Elevator Co., Campolonghi Italia S.r.l, Chatham Financial Corporation, Thomson Financial, Latham & Watkins LLP.