October 12 marks 100 years since the birth of Cesar Pelli. He designed the blue building of the Pacific Design Center in 1971–1975, on the former site of the Pacific Electric railway. Among the low houses of West Hollywood, the glass giant was nicknamed the "Blue Whale" right away. Pelli himself pictured the buildings as huge fragments that had fallen to the ground.
The green building with its sharply cut faces opened in 1988, and the red one in the 2010s. Pelli called the red glass the hardest to make, since it was traditionally made with lead. The floor and escalators of the Blue Whale were later filmed in Westworld as underground workshops.
