Wells Fargo Center is a twin tower skyscraper

Skyscraper

A skyscraper is a tall, continuously habitable building of many stories, often designed for office and commercial use. There is no official definition or height above which a building may be classified as a skyscraper...

 complex in downtown

Downtown Los Angeles

Downtown Los Angeles is the central business district of Los Angeles, California, United States, located close to the geographic center of the metropolitan area...

 Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

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, California

California

California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...

, comprising Wells Fargo Tower and KPMG Tower joined by a three-story glass atrium

Atrium (architecture)

In modern architecture, an atrium is a large open space, often several stories high and having a glazed roof and/or large windows, often situated within a larger multistory building and often located immediately beyond the main entrance doors...

. The project received the 1986–1987 and 2003-2004 Building Owners and Managers Association

Building Owners and Managers Association

The Building Owners and Managers Association , founded in 1907, is a professional organization for commercial real estate professionals and is the oldest and largest in its field. Its membership includes building owners, managers, developers, leasing professionals, medical office building managers,...

 (BOMA) Office Building of the Year Award and numerous others.

Wells Fargo Tower

Wells Fargo Tower (Tower I), at 220 m (721.8 ft) it is the taller building of the complex. It has 54 floors and is the 7th tallest building in the Los Angeles, and the 92nd-tallest building in the United States. When it opened in 1983, it was known as the Crocker Tower, named after San Francisco-based Crocker National Bank

Crocker National Bank

Crocker National Bank was a United States bank headquartered in San Francisco, California. It was acquired by and merged into Wells Fargo Bank in 1986.-History:The bank traces its history to the Woolworth National Bank in San Francisco...

. Crocker merged with Wells Fargo

Wells Fargo

Wells Fargo & Company is an American multinational diversified financial services company with operations around the world. Wells Fargo is the fourth largest bank in the U.S. by assets and the largest bank by market capitalization. Wells Fargo is the second largest bank in deposits, home...

 in 1986.

During initial construction it was featured in the 1983 film, Blue Thunder

Blue Thunder

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, and the top upper floors were not completed during filming, so Roy Scheider

Roy Scheider

Roy Richard Scheider was an American actor. He was best known for his leading role as police chief Martin C...

's character shot a helicopter chasing him from the unfinished top floor.

Anchor tenants:

• Wells Fargo Bank (Floors 1,5,7,9,11,12)
• Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher
  Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher
  Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher is a global law firm, founded in Los Angeles in 1890. The firm is one of the most prestigious and selective in the nation, and ranks among the most successful firms globally. Gibson Dunn has nearly 1,000 attorneys and over 2,000 staff located in 17 offices around the world,...
  
   (Floors 44–53)
• Dewey & LeBoeuf (Floor 26)
• Oaktree Capital Management
  Oaktree Capital Management
  Oaktree Capital Management, L.P. is a global investment management corporation with about US$82.4 billion of assets under management. Oaktree's mission is to provide management with a primary emphasis on risk control in a limited number of sophisticated investment specialties...
  
   (Floors 23, 24, 27–30)

KPMG Tower

KPMG Tower (Tower II) is 171 m (561 ft), and was completed in 1983 with 45 floors. It is the 16th tallest building in the city.

Anchor tenants:

• Latham & Watkins
  Latham & Watkins
  Latham & Watkins LLP is a global law firm, one of the largest in the world. Latham currently employs approximately 2,000 attorneys in the United States, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. The firm was started in Los Angeles in 1934 and has extensive Californian roots, but its largest office is now...
  
   (Floors 1–11,14)
• Bingham McCutchen
  Bingham McCutchen
  Bingham McCutchen LLP is a global law firm with approximately 1,100 attorneys in nine US offices and four international offices. It represents clients in corporate litigation, cross-border restructurings and insolvencies, financing and securities, structured finance and capital markets, government...
  
   (Floors 42–45)
• KPMG
  KPMG
  KPMG is one of the largest professional services networks in the world and one of the Big Four auditors, along with Deloitte, Ernst & Young and PwC. Its global headquarters is located in Amstelveen, Netherlands....
  
   (Floors 18,20–23)
• Munger, Tolles & Olson
  Munger, Tolles & Olson
  Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP is a California law firm that has offices in Los Angeles and San Francisco. Charles Munger founded the firm in 1962 with six other lawyers.-Legal practice:...
  
  (Floors 34–39)