A real place on screen
Fox Plaza
A faceted office tower with setbacks and a sharply modelled crown. Its still-new construction became an essential part of the action film’s fictional corporate headquarters.
- Architect / attribution
- William L. Pereira & Associates; Scott Johnson and Bill Fain
- Building chronology
- 1987
- Place
- Century City, Los Angeles, United States
The real building

Photo of Fox Plaza in Century City, Los Angeles tom bernard
Films at Fox Plaza
Die Hard (1988)
On screen: Nakatomi Plaza
Los Angeles’s tourism body identifies Fox Plaza as the filming location. The tower was still under construction during the production.
In the film
Movie frames and production stills are shown separately from photographs of the real building. Film and image credits remain with their respective owners.
Movie frame

Twentieth Century Fox · Scene image source
Filming evidence
Building sources
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