The Wells Fargo Center is a twin-tower office complex on Bunker Hill in downtown Los Angeles, at 333 South Grand Avenue. Construction began in 1980 to 1981, and the complex was completed in 1983. Skidmore, Owings & Merrill designed it and also served as structural engineer. Brookfield Properties owns it.
The Wells Fargo Tower is the taller tower, at about 220 meters, with 54 floors. It opened as the Crocker Tower, named for Crocker National Bank, and was renamed after Crocker merged with Wells Fargo in 1986. The South Tower stands about 171 meters tall and has 45 floors.
A three-story glass atrium joins the towers. The cultural critic Fredric Jameson cited the large glass-sheet facade of the complex as an example of the depthlessness of postmodern architecture.
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