A topping-off ceremony followed. As a crowd of steelworkers, engineers, architects, developers and politicians watched the ceremonial raising of the last girder to the top of the city's tallest building, the story First Interstate World Center tower on 5th Street downtown, City Councilman Gilbert Lindsay said he wanted more. What happened? Lindsay has represented downtown Los Angeles for 26 years. The new tower seemed tall enough Tuesday morning.
For a while, the top was shrouded in fog, reminding some of the laborers present of the eerie mornings they had spent working high enough to be in the clouds, helping guide ton horizontal beams into place. After the tower was approved, it took about two years to build the frame. About people gathered to watch the last girder go up. Many of them signed the beam. The slide officially opened in June.
Since currently there's no buildings planned to be built taller than U. Bank Tower by roof height, this observation deck will stay as the highest observatory in Los Angeles for a fairly long time, another supertall tower in downtown, the Wilshire Grand Hotel also will get its own observation deck, but not as high as that of the U. Bank Tower. Popular Culture : U. Bank Tower is one of the most notable landmarks of Los Angeles, the tower naturally has been featured in dozens of movies, TV series, video games.
Independence Day film : An alien ship hovers over the U. Bank Tower, which attracts lots of people to get to the rooftop of the tower to show welcome, however soon afterwards the ship bombs the whole building out.
Dragon War film : A mega snake chases a man and a woman to U. Bank Tower, before the snake arrived at the bottom of the tower the two people have arrived at the rooftop, due to the cylinder shape of the tower, the snake was able to climb up by wrapping around the tower and did that, soon afterwards it found the woman who it was chasing for on the roof top, at this time several choppers came and started attacking the snake, many choppers were destroyed by the snake, the snake fell down to the ground being badly wounded after a few minutes' fighting.
When John Costantine is in the hell, there's a scene featuring the U. Bank Tower destroyed in ruins. Terminator film : The story takes place in Los Angeles, where is a place destroyed and reigned by machines, the base of destroyed U. Bank Tower can be found in a scene when the role acted by Sam Worthington wandering in the ruins of the city after he revived from death.
Bank Tower is among them, but it is only shown a few seconds in the scene. The island film : A couple of clones escaped from the horrific cloning factory and came to a city, which is future's Los Angeles, U. Bank Tower can be easily picked out among skyscrapers, many of which stand taller than U. Bank Tower naturally appears in the scene, unlike the film , the tower and Empire State Building in New York City are all still standing after the striking of the hurricane.
Bank Tower, Inspector Lee received a suspected bomb package, he ran to the rooftop with his partner to dispose the package, only to find it was a false alarm. Bank Tower is shown in many scenes from different angles. Dark Knight Rise film : In a night on a building's roof, Batman invites Cat woman to get on his aircraft, then fly towards to a group of high-rise buildings in the distance, one of which is U.
Bank Tower, in fact those high-rises are cut from Downtown Los Angeles's skyline, though the cityscape of Gotham in the film is mainly based on New York City, they mixes the LA skyline into the scene because of the glorious night view of Downtown LA. Skyscraper film, not the new film : U. Bank Tower is in the background of movie poster, and it's where the most exuberant plots occurs. The tower has appeared in almost every episode and shot from many different angles in the air, this is different from other TV series that show some iconic place in the same angles again and again in every episode.
But there's one angle shows in every episode, that is a scene featuring the office building which served as supergirl's workplace looked up from Street, U. Bank Tower is behind this building, but in order to make the office building looking more majestic, they cut the upper portion of U.
Bank Tower, however U. Bank Tower appears intact from other angles. San Andreas film : U. Bank Tower corrupts in a 9. It is a round high rise with the diameter decreasing toward the top, and it is capped by a "lighthouse". Designed by Lawrence Halprin, the steps proceed up to Bunker Hill and are divided by a raised water channel whose water course seems to suggest a natural bedded stream.
At the top of the steps stands Robert Graham's bronze sculpture Source Figure, a nude female atop a cylindrical pedestal. For more art, Click Here.
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