The Westin Bonaventure Hotel is the largest hotel in Los Angeles, California, USA. It is 367 feet (112 m) tall and has 35 floors. Construction began in 1974, and was completed in 1976. The top floor has a revolving restaurant and bar. It was originally owned by investors including a subsidiary of Japanese conglomerate Mitsubishi Corporation and John Portman & Associates. The hotel was designed by architect, John Portman. The property is currently managed by Interstate Hotels & Resorts (IHR).
Location filming
It has been featured in many movies and television series over the years including: Strange Days , Buck Rogers in the 25th Century , Blue Thunder , This is Spinal Tap , In the Line of Fire , Nick of Time , True Lies , Midnight Madness , Showtime , Hard to Kill , Chuck , and was destroyed (via special effects) in Escape from LA and Epicenter . The television series It's a Living was specifically to have taken place at the Bonaventure as opposed to simply being showcased in a few episodes.. The Westin Bonaventure Hotel is also showcased in episodes of CSI and its exterior in Mission Impossible III, and Hancock.
Popular culture
- A recreation of the Westin Bonaventure Hotel is depicted in the Rockstar Games video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, as a recognizable landmark in the fictional city of Los Santos, which is modeled on the City of Los Angeles, and is called "The Atrium". It is also seen in Rockstar's Midnight Club: Los Angeles , simply as "Bonaventure Hotel".
- The hotel was featured in R&B singer Usher's 2002 video "U Don't Have to Call".
- The Hotel Bonaventure is talked about in John Skipp's novella, Conscience .
- The hotel features prominently in Fredric Jameson's work as its architecture "offers some very striking lessons about the originality of postmodernist space... this new hyperspace."
Other buildings by John Portman
- Renaissance Center in Detroit, Michigan
- Westin Peachtree Plaza Hotel and the Peachtree Center in Atlanta, Georgia
- Embarcadero Center in San Francisco, California
Notes and External Links
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Coordinates: 34°3′10″N 118°15′21″W / 34.05278°N 118.25583°W / 34.05278; -118.25583
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