ONE WILSHIRE
Telco Hotel Central
In the CLUI Los Angeles Exhibit Hall August 9 - September 1, 2002.
In August of 2002, the CLUI hosted an exhibition of still and moving images of the Pacific Coast's telecommunications hub.
On the outside, One Wilshire is an ordinary-looking 30-story 1960’s office tower in Los Angeles, located at a prestigious address: the point where Wilshire Boulevard, the city’s grand west-heading avenue, meets downtown. On the inside is quite a different story: One Wilshire is a telco hotel, said to be the “most interconnected building in the west.” The interior is packed full of telecommunications equipment, connected to the world through dozens of major fiber optic conduits that spill into the building’s below-grade parking garage, from conduits running under the streets outside, and rise through the tower like an infestation of electronic vines. Continue reading the newsletter article about this exhibit.
Watch sample video from the exhibit. (Note: this is a 9.3MB movie + requires Quicktime 5)
View the photos from the exhibit.
Read a transcription of the lecture "Towers of Concentration, Lines of Growth" that
Kazys Varnelis gave at the CLUI during the exhibit closing.
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