A colleague of mine (now passed away) worked for SOM in the early 1980s and worked on these towers. He told me that originally they were to be 55 floors each in the initial designs. For whatever reason 1 floor got chopped on the taller tower and 10 on the smaller (he said that was for economic reasons). The original height was 760ft (I got that from a book years ago).
I've always really liked these buildings. I love the angle from near the Bonaventure that makes the shorter tower appear flat. I also really like the feel on the Grand Avenue side with the two Cal Plaza towers. The two complexes interact well at a sculptural level.
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