Capitol Records Tower
by Jennie Breeze
Title
Capitol Records Tower
Artist
Jennie Breeze
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Photograph - Original Img_0218
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The Capitol Records Building, also known as the Capitol Records Tower, is a Hollywood Boulevard Commercial and Entertainment District building that is located in Hollywood, Los Angeles. The building is a 13 story tower that was designed by Welton Becket and is one of the city's landmarks. Located just north of the Hollywood and Vine intersection. The building is a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument. In April 2013, Capitol Records and artist Richard Wyatt Jr. collaborated to restore his iconic Hollywood Jazz Mural on the south wall of the Capitol Records building. Restored in hand-glazed ceramic tile, the mural spans 26 by 88 feet. Entitled "Hollywood Jazz: 1945-1972", this masterpiece presents larger than life images of notable jazz musicians. The blinking light atop the tower spells out the word "Hollywood" in Morse code since the building's opening in 1956. The building became known as "The House That Nat Built" due to the vast amounts of records and merchandise that Nat King Cole sold for the company. The building design was based upon the graduate school drawings of Lou Naidorf who designed the first circular office building at the age of 24. The wide curved awnings over windows on each story and the tall spike emerging from the top of the building only coincidentally resembles a stack of records on a turntable.
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December 13th, 2015
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