Editing Capitol Records (section)

==Headquarters==
{{Main|Capitol Records Building}}
[[File:Capitol Records sunset.jpg|thumb|right|Capitol Records headquarters building in Hollywood]]
Designed by [[Welton Becket]] with Louis Naidorf, a young architect from Becket's office, serving as project designer<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.laconservancy.org/locations/capitol-records-tower|title=Capitol Records Tower|publisher=Los Angeles Conservancy|access-date=August 5, 2018|archive-date=June 4, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230604043400/https://www.laconservancy.org/locations/capitol-records-tower|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="Chris"/> the thirteen-story, earthquake-resistant Capitol Records Tower was the world's first circular office building and it is the base for several [[recording studios]]. Although not intended as a tribute to record players, its wide curved awnings and tall narrow tower mimic the appearance of a stack of gramophone records atop a phonograph. The building was commissioned by EMI after its acquisition of Capitol Records in 1955 and was completed in April 1956. The building is north of the intersection of Hollywood and Vine and is the center of the company's consolidated West Coast operations. It was nicknamed "The House That Nat Built" after the financial success of Capitol singer Nat King Cole.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |date=May 15, 1995 |title=Maria Cole Sues Capitol Records over Royalties from Nat King Cole's Classic Recordings |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Nz0DAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA52 |journal=Jet |pages=52–53 |via=Google Books}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite book |last=Henry |first=Mike |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2C1sFxPUTT4C&dq=the+house+that+nat+built&pg=PA81 |title=Black History: More than Just a Month |date=2012-12-27 |publisher=R&L Education |isbn=978-1-4758-0262-7 |language=en}}</ref> The rectangular ground floor is a separate structure joined to the tower after it was completed.

In September 2006, EMI announced that it had sold the tower and adjacent properties for $50 million to New York-based developer [[Argent Ventures]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-fi-capitol29sep29,0,5886755.story?coll=la-home-headlines |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] |first=Roger |last=Vincent |title=Capitol Records Tower to Be Sold |date=September 29, 2006}}</ref> In mid-2008, a controversy erupted over a plan to build a condominium complex next door, igniting fears that the building's acoustic properties, specifically its underground echo chambers, would be compromised. It was announced in November 2012 that [[Steve Barnett (music executive)|Steve Barnett]] would become chairman and CEO of [[Capitol Music Group]] and would be based at the Capitol Records Building.<ref>{{cite news|title=Steve Barnett to lead Capitol Music Group |url=http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/posts/la-et-ms-steve-barnett-capitol-music-group-20121126,0,2641587.story |access-date=April 18, 2013|newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=November 26, 2012|first=August|last=Brown}}</ref> Capitol and artist Richard Wyatt Jr. restored his Hollywood Jazz Mural on the south wall of the Capitol Records Building.<ref>{{cite web|title=Capitol Records Jazz Mural restored!|url=http://millenniumhollywood.net/2013/01/30/capitol-records-jazz-mural-restored/|work=Millennium Hollywood|publisher=Millennium Hollywood Partners|access-date=April 18, 2013 |date=January 30, 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130525215122/http://millenniumhollywood.net/2013/01/30/capitol-records-jazz-mural-restored/|archive-date=May 25, 2013}}</ref>