5792 x 8688 px | 49 x 73,6 cm | 19,3 x 29 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
23 febbraio 2018
Ubicazione:
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Altre informazioni:
The Westin Bonaventure Hotel and Suites is a 367-foot (112 m), 35-story hotel in Los Angeles, California, constructed between 1974 and 1976. Designed by architect John C. Portman, Jr., it is the largest hotel in the city. The top floor has a revolving restaurant and bar. It was originally owned by investors that included a subsidiary of Japanese conglomerate Mitsubishi Corporation and John Portman & Associates. The building is managed by Interstate Hotels & Resorts (IHR), and is valued at US$200 million. Although the top floor is numbered "35", there are no floors numbered "7" or "13"; so technically this is only a 33-story building. Several bronze plaques commemorate elevator scenes from three major films: In the Line of Fire, September 1993, "Green Square" elevator True Lies, September 1993, "Red Circle" and "Yellow Diamond" elevators Forget Paris, November 1994, "Yellow Diamond" elevator It has been featured in other movies and television series over the years including: Interstellar, Strange Days, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (as part of the city of New Chicago), Blue Thunder, It's a Living, L.A. Law, Breathless, This Is Spinal Tap, Hit the Booty Do, Nick of Time, Midnight Madness, Showtime, Hard to Kill, The Lincoln Lawyer, Chuck, Xanadu, Moby Dick, [11] The Fantastic Journey[12][13] and was destroyed (via special effects) in Escape from LA, Epicenter, and San Andreas. You can see it under construction in the 1975 film The Wilderness Family (released a year before the hotel opened). In cartoon form, the building can be seen in the very first shot of Jem in the episode "The Beginning", and in the anime Steins;Gate.
