Description Architect: AC Martin Partners - acmartin.com
Developers: • Korean Air • Martin Project Management
• Original plans called for two separate towers. New developers were eventually hired and proposed combining the different uses for each tower into one multipurpose tower.
• The mixed use building consists of retail, conference spaces, and building amenities on the lower floors and office space from the 11th to 29th floors. The InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown hotel occupies the 31st to the 68th floor with the hotel lobby located on the 70th floor. The upper floors contain a restaurant and a small elevator that transports visitors to Spire 73, the tallest open-air bar in the Western Hemisphere.
• The decorative crown that rises above the top floor and it's spire made the Wilshire Grand the first Los Angeles skyscraper constructed since 1974 to not feature a flat roof design. The city granted developers an exception from a city-wide ordinance that requires skyscrapers to include rooftop helicopter pads intended for Earthquake emergencies, made possible with the building's advanced fire safety design. A small helipad was eventually included in the building's final design.
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