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Century Plaza Towers in California, United States
Century Plaza Towers

1975 · California, California, United States

Century Plaza Towers image

571-foot twin towers in the Century City neighborhood of Los Angeles, California

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Century Plaza Towers

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Century Plaza Towers

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571-foot twin towers in the Century City neighborhood of Los Angeles, California

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Century Plaza TowersCentury Plaza Towers

1975 · California, California, United States

Frank Lloyd Wright FoundationFrank Lloyd Wright Foundation

1940 · Scottsdale, Arizona, United States

Typeworkbureau
Year / years19751940
PlaceCalifornia, California, United StatesScottsdale, Arizona, United States
Place contextCalifornia, California, United StatesRepresentative site: Wyoming, Wyoming, United States
Climate13°C · 13.2h daylight · 2 km/h wind-1°C · 13.7h daylight · 3 km/h wind · via Unity Chapel
FocusArchitecture121 works in corpus
Architects
  • Minoru Yamasaki
  • Frank Lloyd Wright
Linked context

Bureaus

  • Yamasaki & Associates

Notable works

  • Unity Chapel
  • Rookery Building
  • Louis Sullivan Bungalow
  • Walter Gale House
Typologies
  • tower
  • chapel
  • sacred space
  • office
  • civic building
  • building
  • house
  • landscape
  • education
Materials

Not recorded yet.

  • steel
  • timber
  • plaster
  • brick
  • stone
  • concrete
  • glass
  • copper
Carbon signals

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No dominant drivers yet.

Concrete, Steel, and Brick look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette.

  • Concrete
  • Steel
  • Brick
Lower-carbon levers

No levers surfaced yet.

  • Look for lower-clinker mixes, reused structure, and scope reductions before fine-grained product swaps.
  • Prioritize recycled content, efficient sections, and procurement-specific EPD comparisons.
  • Review masonry extent, reuse opportunities, and alternate assemblies where the design language allows it.
  • Use classification and product-level EPD research to place this material more precisely.
AccessibilityAccess not recorded40 of 40 recorded works are publicly accessible
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