The Gas Company Tower was the second building whose height is a result of Maguire Partners’ Central Library air rights exchange (the other is U.S. Bank Tower).

The building rises in a series of cliff-like setbacks and inverted corners, with an elliptical top of blue glass symbolizing the trademark blue gas flame of the building’s primary tenant and joint venture partner, Southern California Gas Company.

Inside is an unusual lobby, with a wall of windows looking out to an enormous mural by Frank Stella painted on the side of the adjacent building. The mural, titled “Dusk,” is the public art component of the building.

In the area between the mural and the lobby is a water installation comprising hundreds of small jets of water in straight lines, which continue under the glass wall and inside the lobby under transparent strips of flooring.