Century City is a 176-acre commercial and residential district on the West
Side of the City of Los Angeles. It is bounded by Westwood on the west, Rancho
Park on the southwest, Cheviot Hills and Beverlywood on the southeast, and the
city of Beverly Hills on the northeast. Its major thoroughfares are Santa
Monica, Olympic, and Pico Boulevards (its northern boundary, central artery, and
southern boundary, respectively), as well as Avenue of the Stars and Century
Park East and West.
Century City is an important business center, and many law firms and
executives – particularly those with ties to the film, television, and music
industries – have offices there. The high-rise buildings along Wilshire
Boulevard in Westwood appear to blend in with those of Century City when seen at
a distance, although they are separated by over three-quarters of a mile. Its
gleaming high-rises stand in stark contrast to the small apartment buildings and
single-family detached homes in the lower-density neighborhoods surrounding it,
and were some of the first skyscrapers built in Los Angeles after the lifting of
earthquake-related height restrictions in the early 1960s.
For many years, it was home to the ABC Entertainment Center, which housed
network operations for the ABC Television Network and the "Shubert Theater,"
which hosted many famous Broadway Musicals, such as: Beauty and the Beast, Les
Misérables, and Mamma Mia, which is based on the famous popular rock band ABBA.
The Shubert was demolished in 2002 and became replaced by a modern glass
building that houses the headquarters Creative Artists Agency affectionately
known as the Death Star, which is part of the complex called Century Park.
Some of the most recognized buildings in Century City include:
- The Century Towers
- Century Plaza Towers, commonly referred to as the "Twin Towers".
- Fox Plaza, 20th Century Fox headquarters most well-known for being Nakatomi
Plaza in the movie Die Hard.
- Constellation Place, (or the MGM Tower) headquarters of the historic
Hollywood studio, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
- Watt Plaza
- SunAmerica Center
- Century Plaza Hotel
- Century City News
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