Century City Medical Plaza

Century City Medical Plaza
Century City Medical Plaza (black towers), 1978.
General information
Type	Office tower; hospital
Architectural style	Late Modern architecture
Address	2070-2080 Century Park East, Century City, Los Angeles, California 90067
Completed	1969
Design and construction
Architect	Anthony J. Lumsden & César Pelli

The Century City Medical Plaza is a landmark set of two buildings in Century City, Los Angeles, California.

Location

The building is located at 2070-2080 Century Park East in Century City, on the West side of Los Angeles in California.^[1]

History

It was designed in the Late Modern architectural style by architects Anthony J. Lumsden and César Pelli.^[1][2] Construction was completed in 1969.^[1][2][3] It is made up of two buildings: a seventeen-story office tower, and a ten-story hospital.^[2][3] The plaza originally housed Century City Hospital, which was owned by Tenet Healthcare Corporation.^[4] Tenet closed the hospital in 2004 as it sold it to Salus Surgical Group.^[4] The hospital was renamed as Century City Doctors Hospital, which closed in 2008 after filing for bankruptcy.^[5]

Heritage significance

The two buildings resemble two large black boxes made of skin glass.^[1] The mullions are reversed, thus playing on the idea of deconstructing the traditional architectural feature of columns.^[1] They were the first two buildings to be entirely enclosed in glass skin.^[1] This architectural style became a feature of "corporate architecture" for the next twenty years.^[1]

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