Hollywood Hollywood & Higland Center#

Hollywood Hollywood & Higland Center, April 2015, © Ewald Judt, under CC BY 4.0

The Hollywood & Highland Center 34.1028191,-118.3398281 is a shopping mall and entertainment complex at Hollywood Boulevard and Highland Avenue in the Hollywood District in Los Angeles. It has five retail floors and the total retail floor area is 640,000 sq feet (59,000sq m), featuring a wide variety of shops, but also two nightclubs, a bowling alley and two theaters. It is one of the most visited tourist destinations in Los Angeles. The centerpiece of the complex is a three-story courtyard inspired by the Babylon Scene from the D.W. Griffith film Intolerance. The developer built part of the archway and two pillars with elephant sculptures on the capitals to the same full scale as in the film.