ARCO Center
Los Angeles, USA

HEIGHT: 224m/735 feet
FLOORS: 55 floors
COMPLETION: 1975
ARCHITECT: AC Martin Partners

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7.5/10...Sorry, I'm a sucker for these WTC look alike boxes. Most people hate them and boxes, but I like them and find them interesting. The vertical lines looks so perfect from top to bottom and helps make the tower look taller. The white and black combo is great. To me it doesn't look like a skyscraper, it looks like a big sculpture or piece of art.

The white Vertical building-support beam columns placed in it's best, make an absulute stunning pattern for this boring structure. Without any kind of special base at the ground level, made this building like it's really spurting out from the ground. Wide and open large public plaza gives the best of the first impression for the pedrestrian.....Not bad for this basic-boring style box....8/10

Disproportionate for its height.. Looks very fat.. :bash: Plus its boring facade and boxiness makes it even worse..

6.5/10

Simple design - recessed vertical full-length glass strips and a plain cap, but effective, as far as boxes go. 7/10

It's an ok box. I wouldn't want it in my city though...6.5/10

5.5 all alone boxes i hate

6.5/10

I like the emphasis on the vertical here.

7/10

Simple and clean facade. The corners are cut off, but not like Aon Center's. What the hell is that sculpture in the first pic? Looks exactly like the Grasshopper in Chicago.

8/10 Because I love Aon Center, and this is like its twin.

Mm not so good.
6.0/10

It's not only a box, its an elegant box.
6/10

not as beautiful as other boxes but neat enough. 5.5/10

Box..low marks. Ugly box..even lower. I gave it the lowest score...

Good
7/10

6.5/10
Quite plain, but nice as boxes go. :)

5/10 boring box......

Looks a lot at the Aon centre which I don't like too.

7

Simple, and quite OK. 6/10

6/10 - OK, it's slim, and the vertical mullions of white stone help the height, as well as providing a good contrast to the black windows.

BUT - it looks like the AON center's kid brother - the facade doesn't dance with the light at all, and it just seems to sit there, aloof and lonely...Just 735 ft. of facade crashing *straight*down*into*the* sidewalk, and another flat roof....

It isn't just the shape, it's what the architect does with the shape...

no no. box 1/10

4 for its height..

8/10 I like it.

facade: those verticales are ok
form: boxy
points: 6

It looks massive and heavy
NOTHING BUT BOX!

But for the height 5/10

I like the way the tower "ends" at the bottom and the width of the glass verticals is well chosen.

7.5/10

7/10


Boxy (reminds the WTC)

not bad

6.5/10

8.5

Very boring and ugly. 1/10

it needs a facelift, and a new lobby design too. it currently looks like it's sinking into the plaza, like what liz said. aon's definitely better than this one though.

6

reminds me Chicago's AON center..............7

Very boring boxy building

6/10

Yuck...a ghastly building 0/10

Nice 7/10

Disproportionate for its height.. Looks very fat.. :bash: Plus its boring facade and boxiness makes it even worse..

6.5/10
agree very much so

Well I find this one very boring because of it's base. It really looks like it sunk a little into the ground. I would love it as a good looking simplistic skyscraper if only it had a more interesting base and if this building was taller but I really hate it which is mostly because of it's base. So it's just too ugly and bothers me. 3/10

6.5/10

7,5/10 - Good box.

7.5

8/10

Nice clean simple facade, solid looking building, uncomplicated design.

4/10

7.0 really not bad.

The best box building I have ever seen. 8/10
L.A rocks!

5.5/10 never was a fan of white columns in boxes

another good one for LA 8

Just another ordinary box, nothing special. I give it a 6.5/10. :sleepy:

8/10

Ugly. 4.

6/10

Plain.

6/10, not even the best white box out there (compared with Torre Picasso).

7/10

8/10

It looks massive and heavy
NOTHING BUT BOX!

But for the height 5/10

you said it right!, 5/10

8/10.

7/10

I like this kind of boxes ;) 7,5/10

As boxes go it's pretty boring 5/10

6.5/10

7/10

7/10

boring
6.0/10

simple ...4/10

Yet Another Box, and not one of the best. Colors are not too disgusting.
3.

6/10

8/10

6.5/10

nothing too interesting but nothing too offending
6/10

5/10.

The first time I saw this building was 1975 I was at the Bonaventure(stunning Portman Building) It was night time and It occurred to me that all the buildings were much cooler then anything in Seattle where I lived. Seattle was pretty tiered in the 70's . The 'Arco' tower to anyone who knows LA has always bin 'Security pacific bank' the big 'S' logo at its 4 corners always lit up the skyline from any viewpoint. The vertical stripes also matched well with the other towers. anyways as a kid I was really enamoured with Downtown LA.

7/10

Nice 8/10

3,5/10

7/10

7,5/10

8/10

oh man, i love it: 9.5/10

7/10

I can't stand that "sculpture", its color and its placement. no points taken off because of it though.

7.5/10

5.5/10

Looks like a quality box 6/10

5/10

5 / 10

6.5/10, simple

That is so boring. below 3.

7. dull.

5/10

6/10

7/10

6.5/10

Too simple i think. A 6 out of 10.

6.5/10

7/10

7/10

nice box for its age 6.5/10

7.5/10. It's the Bank of America Plaza now. This tower has gone through many name changes.

6/10

Boring facade... 6/10

6/10

6/10

5/10

9/10

8/10

bP box :lol: 5

boring box......

7/10 Nothing special...

6/10

6 ..

5/10

8/10

7/10

Big box.

6/10

7,5/10

What A box...LA needs more buildings....:badnews:


5/10

6/10

Looks like the project from 70 years. Marnie, on average and poorly, but it is a matter of the taste. I am greeting.

6/10

9.5/10

6.5/10

Plain but nice
7.5/10

5,5/10

7/10

7/10

6/10

6/10

8/10

Clean, clear message. A handsome example. 8

8.5

voted 7.510

This Bank of America Center not ARCO Center

from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_of_America_Center_%28Los_Angeles%29

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b1/Bank_of_America_Center_%28Los_Angeles%29.jpg/402px-Bank_of_America_Center_%28Los_Angeles%29.jpg

7/10

7.5/10

7/10

It is the Bank Of America Center.

Another example of LA's 60's-70's vibe.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3170/2733870294_8949800252_b.jpg

6/10 so so.

7/10

Nice box. 8/10

6/10

6/10

Ugly, but some height to it.

6/10

7/10

7/10

Ugly. 5/10

6/10

7/10
perfetto!

7 for this

7,5/10

6/10

6/10