Los Angeles - Westin Bonaventure Hotel

This Downtown hotel, near the freeways (400 South Figueroa Street, with a second entrance on Flower Street), is one of the most unconventional buildings designed by the hotel architect John Portman of Atlanta. The five free-standing round towers, with lifts going up and down on the outside, dominate the skyscraper scene of Downtown Los Angeles like no other building. Around the inner atrium, in the building of which much concrete was used, are numerous shops and restaurants. The hotel, built in 1978, has 1,500 rooms.