Los Angeles lacks the large public art works of New York, Chicago and San Francisco, yet it has as many architecturally significant skyscrapers, iconic buildings, inventive museums and elegant performing art venues. And unlike those cities whose best architecture is only downtown, LA has them spread over several business and entertainment districts.

Downtown

•    Disney Concert Hall, 1st Street & Grand Ave
•    Library Tower (original name) at 1,018 feet, one of America's 7 tallest buildings
•    Los Angeles Central Library, 5th Street at Grand Ave
•    First Interstate Tower (original name) at 858 feet is LA's second tallest
•    Two California Plaza, built on land once owned by a Black woman, Biddy Mason
•    Gas Company Tower, 749 feet and a worthy companion to Library Tower
•    Sanwa Bank Tower is set at a 45 degree angle from the street
•    Dept of Water & Power Building and Pool, 1st & Hope Streets
•    Staples Center, Figueroa & 11th Streets
•    City Hall, 1st and Spring Streets
•    Museum of Modern Art, Grand Ave at 2nd Street
•    Westin Bonaventure Hotel, 5th and flower Streets
•    Japanese American National Museum, 1st Street & Central Ave
•    Broadway features the nation’s largest collection of classic theaters
•    Union Station, Alameda Street at 101 Freeway
•    Coca Cola Building, Central Ave between 12th & 14th Streets

•    Ramon Cortines School of Performing Arts at 450 North Grand Avenue

Exposition Park-USC Campus

All sites are located in the park adjacent to Figueroa Street between Exposition Blvd and Martin Luther King Blvd

•    Coliseum
•    California Science Center
•    Natural History Museum
•    Aerospace Museum
•    Shrine Auditorium

Midtown-Miracle Mile

•    Otis School of Art & Design, Wilshire Blvd at Mac Arthur Park
•    I. Magnin Wilshire, Wilshire Blvd at Westmoreland Ave
•    Wiltern Theatre at Wilshire Blvd at Western Ave
•    Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Wilshire Blvd at Fairfax Ave
•    Staples store, Wilshire Blvd a few blocks west of La Brea Ave

Hollywood-Hollywood Hills-Pasadena

•    Griffith Observatory
•    Hollywood Bowl
•    Greek Theatre
•    Capitol Records Building
•    Pantages Theatre
•    Kodak Theatre
•    Chinese Theatre
•    Egyptian Theatre
•    El Capitan Theatre
•    Arclight Cinedome
•    Pasadena City Hall
•    Rose Bowl

West Hollywood-Beverly Hills

•  Landscaped median of Santa Monica Boulevard
•  Pacific Design Center
•  Chateau Marmont on Sunset Blvd
•  Argyle Hotel on Sunset Blvd
•  Beverly Hills City Hall

Century City-Westwood-Brentwood

•   Avenue of the Stars
•   Fox Plaza
•   Century City Towers
•   Hyatt Century Plaza
•   AIG-Sun America Tower
•   Getty Museum