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Rising over the Hollywood neighbourhood just north of the Hollywood and Vine intersection, the Capitol Records Building is a thirteen-storey tower widely described as the world's first circular office building. It was designed by the young architect Louis Naidorf of Welton Becket and Associates and completed in 1956, shortly after the British company EMI bought Capitol Records and consolidated the label's West Coast operations on the site. Its resemblance to a stack of records topped by a phono...