City National Plaza

City National Plaza is a twin tower skyscraper complex on South Flower Street in western Downtown Los Angeles, California, United States. It was originally named ARCO Plaza upon opening in 1972.

City National Plaza

ARCO Plaza (1972–2005)

ARCO Center
ARCO Plaza
ARCO Plaza North Tower
ARCO Plaza South Tower
Atlantic Richfield Towers
Bank of America Tower
Los Angeles Twin Towers

Commercial offices

505-555 South Flower Street
Los Angeles, California

34°03′03″N 118°15′25″W / 34.0508°N 118.2569°W / 34.0508; -118.2569

1969

1972

CommonWealth Partners

213.3 m (700 ft)

206,000 m² (2.22 million sq ft)

Albert C. Martin & Associates

Robert E. McKee, Inc.

—architecture firm.^[18]

Gensler

Shopping center[edit]

ARCO Plaza opened with a 220,000 sq ft (20,000 m²) shopping center on two levels which gained attention for the novelty of a shopping center within an office tower complex and for its sleek design of brick walkways, tiled and mirrored escalator wells and fresh flowers. There were over 40 shops and services and over 10 restaurants including “François”.^[29] During the 2004 renovation, the lower shopping level was converted to parking and today the one remaining level is a food court.^[30]

Featured extensively throughout the 1971 movie (which was filmed during the Plaza's construction phase), shown in various stages of completion.

The Omega Man

Plaza area and water sculpture featured in the 1976 film, .

Marathon Man

The complex was also extensively featured in the 1976 mini-series, The Moneychangers, which starred Kirk Douglas, Christopher Plummer, Susan Flannery, Anne Baxter and Timothy Bottoms. The Bank of America branch then located in the jewel Box was rebadged as the First Mercantile American Bank (FMA) main branch for both exterior and interior filming. Multiple exterior shots of the ARCO tower (now the Paul Hastings Tower) were used to suggest it as the location of FMA's executive offices.

NBC

Both towers were prominently featured in a couple of shots from the 1982 film

Koyaanisqatsi

The north "Paul Hastings" tower was depicted as being struck by an air-to-air (a shot which utilized a detailed miniature of both towers), in the 1983 film, Blue Thunder.

Sidewinder missile

In the 2015 film , the twin towers were shown swaying violently during an earthquake and in a later shot, the Paul Hastings tower was shown falling on the City National Tower. Later in the film, one of the buildings was reused in the 9.6 earthquake in San Francisco, and renamed as the “San Francisco Bank & Trust.” It is seen breaking in half during the panning shot towards the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.

San Andreas

Featured in . Reed and Malloy locate robbery suspects on the 26th floor while cross training with the helicopter unit.

"Adam-12 Skywatch part 1"

Richfield Tower

List of tallest buildings in Los Angeles

Cameron, Robert (1990). Above Los Angeles. San Francisco: Cameron & Company. 0-918684-48-X.

City National Plaza