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Building History

The huge, Los Angeles architectural firm of Welton Becket and Associates, designed the Avco Financial Center office tower for the Balboa Insurance Company (a subsidiary of Avco) in the very early 1970s. Becket collaborated with the Los Angeles engineering consultancy, James A. Knowles and Associates, Incorporated on the used of Thermopane glass produced by the Libbey-Owens-Ford Company of Toledo, OH. The glazing contractor was Golden State Glass Company of Los Angeles. (See (See Libbey-Owens-Ford Company advertisement, Architectural Forum, vol. 138, no. 5, 06/1973, pp. 8-9.)

Building Notes

An "Interior view of the elevator bays of the Avco Financial Center, Newport Beach, California, United States," a photograph by Marvin Rand, has been preserved at the Canadian Center for Architecture, Item #PH1998:0107:005. (See Canadian Center for Architecture.ca, "Interior view of the elevator bays of the Avco Financial Center, Newport Beach, California, United States," photo dating from 1971, accessed 08/27/2024.) In addition, a "General view of the Avco Financial Center, Newport Beach, California, United States" created by Rand, Item #PH1998:0107:002, was also a part of this institution's collection.

PCAD id: 25464