Fairmont Century Plaza travel42 Professional Hotel Review
Location and History
The original centerpiece for futuristic Century City and its planned space-age development, this sweeping 16-story crescent was deemed the "hotel of the future" by the media of the day. It has been visited by every U.S. president since Lyndon Johnson. President Nixon celebrated the astronauts from the Apollo 11 mission in a banquet at the property.
Designed by midcentury modernist Minoru Yamasaki (he was behind New York's World Trade Center), the hotel was...
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