LOS ANGELES (AP) — A new skyscraper in downtown Los Angeles has become the tallest building west of the Mississippi River. Construction workers on Saturday placed a 10-ton spire atop the ...

LOS ANGELES --The tallest building west of the Mississippi River opened on Friday. Standing 1,100 feet tall, the Wilshire Grand Center is the latest in a crop of new skyscrapers in the Los Angeles ...

The expectations for this building are high. For all its 21st century detailing, the Wilshire Grand is a throwback to a time when Los Angeles dared to dream tall and for three decades — the ...

Here’s the long and short of it: Los Angeles still hasn’t produced a skyscraper that qualifies as a great work of architecture. The Wilshire Grand Center opened Friday as the tallest building ...

By that measure the Wilshire Grand would still top the 60-floor Transbay tower, but it wouldn’t even be the tallest building in Los Angeles. That title would remain with the U.S. Bank Tower ...

Though the highest point in Nevada -- Boundary Peak -- towers 13,147 feet above the remote wilderness of Southern Nevada, the tallest buildings ... skyscrapers in Los Angeles, Chicago and New ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - A new skyscraper in downtown Los Angeles has become the tallest building west of the Mississippi River. Construction workers on Saturday placed a 10-ton spire atop the Wilshire ...