.CapitolRecords architect Louis Naidorf sets the record straight on myth of tower's iconic design
"It had nothing to do with a stack of records. If it were IHOP, everyone would think that it looks like a stack of pancakes."
Naidorf recalls, "The insurance company said, 'Glenn, you're not on Hollywood Boulevard. You're up some damn side street and you're only occupying half of the building and leasing out the rest. People won't laugh at the building, but they will notice it and that's damn good for leasing. Do the round one.'"
Constructed from 1955-1956, the Capitol Records Building was Naidorf's first architectural project as a young design architect at Los Angeles firm Welton Becket & Associates. Without initially knowing who commissioned the tower the 24-year-old was tasked with designing a 13-story building, 150 feet tall, on a sloped section of Vine Street in Hollywood.
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