Completed in late 2009, the building has 42 floors and rises to a height of 481 feet, making it the 41st-tallest building in Los Angeles.

The 140 unit building was designed by the firm of the 2011 Driehaus Prize winner, Robert A.M. Stern Architects.

The Century was developed by Related Companies, and constructed on the site of the former St. Regis Los Angeles, formerly part of the Century Plaza Hotel.

[5] On July 22, 2008 Candy Spelling, the widow of late television producer Aaron Spelling, purchased the penthouse occupying the top two floors of the building.

[6] Found two stories below Spellings’ unit, a full-floor penthouse with 9,343 sq ft (868.0 m2) of living space sold for a record $22.5 million in 2015.