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Photo by Gary Leonard/Los Angeles Public Library

777 Tower

Cesar Pelli
One of downtown's most graceful high-rise office buildings, the 777 Tower designed by Cesar Pelli effortlessly pierces the downtown skyline with subtle articulation and detail.
Photo by Adrian Scott Fine/L.A. Conservancy

Barton Choy Residence

Barton Choy
Sitting one address apart in Silver Lake, these two wooden plank-paneled houses' acute angles, use of steep lots, and dramatic façades proclaim the work of innovative architect Barton Choy.
Photo by Jessica Hodgdon/L.A. Conservancy

Bunker Hill Steps

Lawrence Halprin
The ties between downtown L.A. and its Bunker Hill origins have been tenuous at best. The Bunker Hill Steps, built in 1989, aimed to remedy that.
HSBC Tower
Photo courtesy Architectural Resources Group

Figueroa Tower

A. C. Martin & Associates
Kamnitzer Cotton Vreeland
At the corner of West Seventh and South Figueroa Streets is a curious sight, combining the characteristics of the historic French Chateauesque style with the sleek verticality of a modern high-rise office building.
Photo by Robert Mangurian

Gagosian Art Gallery and Apartments

Studio Works
From the street it's hard to see the splendor of this nondescript, industrial-looking building—that is, until you spy an aerial view revealing its secret heart: a circular interior courtyard, wholly open to the sky.

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