Bank of America Building Bank of America Building (also known as the library building and the first interstate world center) is located at 633 West Fifth Street in downtown Los Angeles, California, USA. It is the tallest skyscraper in North America west of Chicago and the tallest building in California. In addition, the u.s. bank tower is also the tallest building, with a helicopter airport on the top floor (built according to the building law of Los Angeles). With a height of 10 18 feet (3 10 meter), the Bank of America Building is one of the tallest skyscrapers in the world (ranked 22nd in 2005). Before the completion of Taipei 10 1, the Bank of America Building was also the tallest building in the main seismic activity area, and the building itself was designed to withstand an earthquake with a magnitude of 8.3 on the Richter scale. The Bank of America Building is 73 stories high and has two underground parking lots. It was designed by I.M. Pei's architect Henrey N. Cobb, with a total cost of $350 million.

This building is also called the "Library Building" because it is located across the street from the Los Angeles Central Library. 1986, after two disastrous fires, Los Angeles allocated 1 billion dollars for reconstruction, part of which was used to renovate the Los Angeles Central Library. The city of Los Angeles also sold the airspace right to the builder of the Federal Bank Building to supplement the whole construction plan of the library. The Federal Bank Building was once called the "First Interstate World Center" because it was acquired by the First Interstate Bank. Later, due to the merger of Bank of China and Wells Fargo, the name of the library building was mentioned again. In March 2003, the building was acquired by Bank of America Group, so it was renamed the Federal Bank Building. However, people in Los Angeles are still used to calling this building the library building.

The part of the building with a large glass design at the top is called the "crown", and it can be seen to glow at night. On the 4th of July, this "crown" will be lit by red and blue lights, and if it is during Christmas, it will be lit by red and green lights. When the Los Angeles Lakers play the NBA playoffs, the "crown" will be lit with purple and gold (these two colors are the representative colors of the Lakers). On February 28th, 2004, Crown was hung with two billboards bearing the trademark of Bank of America, each of which was 75 feet (23 meters) high, which was considered to destroy the aesthetic feeling of the building itself and caused serious controversy. (1990 to 1997, when the first interstate bank put the trademark billboard on the crown, it also caused the same controversy. )

[Edit this paragraph] Terrorist attack target

In June 2004, 16 and 9 1 1 investigation committees pointed out in their reports that the original plan of the 9 1 1 terrorist attack was to hijack ten planes, one of which was expected to crash into the federal bank building.

On June 6th, 2005, 10, the White House claimed in an official statement that according to previously undisclosed secret documents, the government blocked the second terrorist attack plan and successfully prevented the plane from hitting the Federal Bank Building in mid-2002. On February 9, 2006, US President George W. Bush announced in a radio address that US anti-terrorism officials had successfully prevented the plane from hitting the Freedom Tower. President Bush said that the Freedom Building in Los Angeles is the tallest building in the West Bank. Critics believe that President Bush is talking about a "library tower".

According to President Bush, al-Qaeda leader khalid sheikh mohammed's plan is to hijack the plane of Muslim militant Hambari recruited by Asian ally Jemaah Islamiyah. Although some anti-terrorism experts doubt whether this terrorist act has been fully planned or how likely it is to happen. In his speech, Bush still claimed that the hijackers had planned to break through the cockpit door with bombs hidden in shoes, and this plan began as early as 20061October 5438+0.

[Edit this paragraph] The Bank of America Building in Popular Culture

In the movie Independence Day, the Bank of America Building was the first building destroyed by aliens. In the movie Constantine, when the protagonist John Kostandin was in hell, there was a scene where he could see the destroyed Bank of America building.

In addition, in the movie After Tomorrow, the Federal Bank Building was also positively impacted by the tornado that destroyed Los Angeles. In addition, the film Escape from Los Angeles directed by j carpente can also show that the Bank of America Building was almost submerged after a major earthquake that separated Los Angeles from the mainland.

This building was also designed as an important landmark in the video game "true crime: Streets of Los Angeles", but the Bank of America Tower was wrongly designed in this game. In the game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, you can see another version of the Bank of America Tower, which appears in the downtown of the virtual city of Los Santos.

The Bank of America Building often appears in the TV series Angel, and its background is Los Angeles in the novel story. In addition, the Federal Building also appeared in the scenes of two other TV series Alias and 24 Hours in Los Angeles.

In the movie Battle of the Dragon, the Bank of America building was also entangled by a python, and the Armageddon in the movie Transformers was also on the street near the Bank of America building, and the movie Superman Hancock was also filmed in Los Angeles.