at 550 S Flower St, Los Angeles , 90014 United States
The Superior Oil Company Building, currently The Standard Downtown LA and previously the Bank of California Building, is a 12-story marble-clad highrise building located at 550 S Flower St in Downtown Los Angeles. Completed in 1956, the Modern architecture structure was designed by Claud Beelman and William Simpson, as an office building and headquarters for Superior Oil Company. The building's design featured motifs particular to Superior Oil, including stylized "S" door pulls for the entrances and a bas-relief-style metal sculpture of an oilfield and refinery landscape above the Flower Street entrance interior.In 2000 the building was purchased by William Gustafson and Mark Neumann, of Columbia Development Group, who in partnership with Bear Sterns, JPMorgan Partners and Standard Holdings converted the office building into a boutique hotel. The hotel was designed by Koning Eizenberg Architecture into The Standard Downtown LA. The project was constructed by Sam Martel of Taisei Construction and Christy McAvoy of Historical Resources Group was the historic preservation consultant.In 2003, the building was added to the National Register of Historic Places based on its architecture.In 2003, The Downtown Standard Hotel, was awarded the Los Angeles Conservancy's PRESERVATION AWARD, For achieving the sensitive transformation of an early Modernist oil headquarters and bank building into a cutting-edge boutique hotel, while retaining the building's hostoric features and atracting a hip, youthful clientele that has created new energy and excitement for all of downtown Los Angeles.
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Superior Oil Company Building is Los Angeles based place and this enity listed in Historical Place category. Located at 550 S Flower St CA 90014.
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