Photos: Wilshire Grand Center opens with a flourish

The Wilshire Grand Center, a 73 story skyscraper, at 1100 feet high, including the spire, it is the tallest building west of the Mississippi.

The Wilshire Grand Center, a 73 story skyscraper, at 1100 feet high, including the spire, it is the tallest building west of the Mississippi.

The Wilshire Grand Center, a 73 story skyscraper, at 1100 feet high, including the spire, it is the tallest building west of the Mississippi.

A construction worker uses a blower to clean away shavings after helping to install a grate over the drainage area on the skylight at the Wilshire Grand Center.

Enrique Paredes works on a railing alongside a water fountain in the front of the center.

Scaffolding is used to install louvers and a three-story-high chandelier at the InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown hotel at the Wilshire Grand Center.

LOS ANGELES, CA-JUNE 25, 2017: Overall, shows the Wilshire Grand Center, a 73 story skyscraper in downtown Los Angeles, at dusk on June 25, 2017. At 1100 feet high, including the spire, it is the tallest building west of the Mississippi. (Travis Geske/For the Times)  (Travis Geske / For the Times)

Artists Victor Hernandez, left, and Mike Tauber put the finishing touches on a 20-foot-by-35-foot mural in the pool area of the InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown hotel.

The Wilshire Grand Center, a 73-story skyscraper, as seen from 7th Street. At 1,100 feet high including the spire, it is the tallest building west of the Mississippi.

Leonel Jimenez, left, and Robert Rasmussen apply primer to steel connections inside the sail that rises above the 73rd floor. The sail is an architectural feature that conceals window-washing and mechanical equipment.

Hortencia Esparza prepares a bed in an InterContinental hotel room.

Glaziers Emanuel Gonzalez, left, and George Silvas help install a glass door leading from the hotel tower to the pool deck.

Workers install wiring for automatic doors in the gallery at the Wilshire Grand.

Ricardo Bailon, left, and Alejandro Armendariz deliver a couch to a room on the 56th floor.

Design Principal Chris King inspects a door in the men’s room of La Boucherie, a French steakhouse on the 71st floor.

Architects Jorge Medrano, left, and Grit Leipert inspect a digitally printed photo of a San Gabriel Mountain scene on a wood veneer panel at the entrance to the Club InterContinental, on the 70th floor.

Jose Jaquez, left, and Jose Cortez grout the marble steps leading to the front entrance of the Wilshire Grand.

Irwing Loreto, left, installs letters on an exterior wall.

Boxes containing furniture are wheeled into the loading dock area.

Scott Grevious hangs drapes in a 48th-floor hotel room.

Construction workers haul equipment in the porte cochere.

Workers clean the parquet wood floor in the restaurant La Boucherie.

Interior designer Gary Broeker decorates inside the presidential suite on the 66th floor.

Marble fabricator Leoncio Franco installs a countertop in the master bathroom of the presidential suite.

The hotel lobby on the 70th floor.

The pool area on the seventh floor.

A construction worker photographs the three-story-high chandelier.

Hortencia Esparza, left, and other members of the housekeeping team prepare a hotel room.

Marble finisher Bravlio Fuentes, foreground, works on a hotel check-in pod made of Luccon fiber-optic concrete in the 70th-floor lobby.

Window washer Antonio Roman at the front entrance of the center.

An overhead view of the seventh-floor swimming pool.

The Wilshire Grand Center, the third skyscraper from the left, is photographed at dusk.