[GOPrincess]

I feel kinda dumb, but as a lifelong Southern Californian I can't figure this out...a library tower? Why not the ARCO towers or something?

[BunnySlippers]

I don't see movies. They say it was destroyed in the movie "Independence Day". I work on the 25th floor of a building in Brentwood ... I know I was nervous on 9-11.

[G-Bob]

North Side of 5th Street, west of Grand Avenue

The cylindrical structure on the left was completed in 1989 using plans from J.M. Pei and Partners. At 1017 feet, it is the tallest building west of Chicago and east of Hong Kong, and perhaps symbolized the final rung in Los Angeles' climb toward world city status. The 350 million dollar project was nicknamed the Library Tower because it "borrowed" the air rights of the Los Angeles Central Library in exchange for support of the Library renovation. It is a round high rise with the diameter decreasing toward the top, and it is capped by a "lighthouse".


http://www.usc.edu/dept/geography/losangeles/lawalk/new/tower.html