Century City (Los Angeles)
Century City is an approximately 71 -acre commercial and residential district in the west of the Californian metropolis of Los Angeles. The famous film studio 20th Century Fox has its headquarters here.
Century City is located within the city limits of Los Angeles, and is bordered to the northwest by the district of Westwood, West Los Angeles in the southwest, Cheviot Hills to the southeast, and to Beverly Hills in the northeast.
Century City is an important business center in which many law firms and service companies have settled - especially those with ties to the entertainment, music and film industry. Feature of the neighborhood are the many high-rise buildings and skyscrapers that are normally found in such concentration in Los Angeles is in Downtown.
History and Planning
The district was built at the beginning of the 1960s gradually to an earlier Backlot by 20th Century Fox. One of the first buildings built in 1966, the Century Plaza Hotel, which has been set by the National Trust for Historic Preservation on the list of most endangered historic buildings in the U.S. in 2009 after the owner had announced the cancellation. The many skyscrapers of Century City represent a stark contrast to the otherwise flat building in the adjoining districts dar. In the 1960s some of the first new high-rise buildings were built in Century City after the earthquake -related height restrictions for buildings had been canceled.
Some of the more famous buildings of Century City include:
- Century Towers
- Century Plaza Towers, also known as Twin Towers
- Fox Plaza, the headquarters of 20th Century Fox
- Constellation Place, (or the MGM Tower ) headquarters of the famous Hollywood studio Metro -Goldwyn -Mayer
- Watt Plaza
- SunAmerica Center
- Century Plaza Hotel
- Century City News