Sharing a tower with private residences some 900 feet above the intersection of Figueroa and Olympic, the Ritz-Carlton Los Angeles is set within the Wilshire Grand Center — a 73-storey curtain-wall tower completed in 2017 to a design by AC Martin Partners that, at the time of its opening, claimed the tallest roof in California. The hotel fills floors 23 through 70 of that glass shaft, which at night catches the spread of the city grid in its dark reflective skin, the Crypto.com Arena visible below like a lit vessel from the aerial image here. With 123 rooms, the property is deliberately intimate for a building of such civic scale — a tension the interiors work hard to resolve. Inside, the rooms move between two registers: upper suites finished in warm rift-cut oak paneling with embroidered headboard details and a sitting area arranged toward floor-to-ceiling city views, and lower rooms in a cooler graphite palette punctuated by brass pendant fixtures and patterned carpet in blush tones. The pool terrace, cantilevered at mid-tower level, is dressed with platform daybeds, draped cabanas, and scattered lanterns — an urbane rooftop grammar that borrows from resort design without pretending to be one. The all-day restaurant at podium level pairs rattan bistro chairs and woven armchairs with terrazzo floors and a backlit oak bar, the material warmth consistent with the broader interior language throughout the building.

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