GTA 5 Landmarks and Other Buildings
Last Edited by TreeFitty April 28, 2012 : 54 Comments : 48,801 Views
As you may have seen in the Grand Theft Auto V trailer or in our GTA V trailer breakdown, there are many real buildings from Los Angeles in the game - similar to New York City with Grand Theft Auto IV. Here's a more organized listing of the landmarks as well as other lesser-known buildings and structures featured in Los Santos and its surrounding areas.
Note: Not all are exact and Rockstar has taken liberties with many of them. A few appear to be mixes of two or more buildings. The buildings in the game were matched up with their closest real life counterpart. All photos found via Google with lesser quality used. Some landmarks are subject to change as we find better matches.
4th Street Bridge
Bradbury Building
Hotel Figueroa
Pershing Square
Subway Terminal Building
Millennium Biltmore Hotel
Foreman & Clark Building
Popeye's and International Newsstand
~9157 Sunset Blvd
Standard Hotel
Whiskey A Go Go
Beverly Hilton
262 North Rodeo Drive (David Orgell)
Lifeguard tower
Santa Monica Pier
Bubba Gump Shrimp Co.
Hippodrome and Restaurant Area
233 Wilshire Blvd
1299 Ocean Ave
El Sermon Del Monte Church or Shutters Hotel
Viceroy Hotel
Muscle Beach
Venice Beach Park Restrooms
Venice Beach Park Police Station
Venice Beach Park Pagodas
49 Westminister Ave
1425 Ocean Front Walk
Sidewalk Market, Ocean Front Walk
23 Windward Ave
83 Windward Ave
80 Windward Ave
Vincent Thomas Bridge
Rail Bridge
Los Angeles Country Club
Marina City Club, Marina del Rey
Griffith Observatory
Vineyards and wineries of Malibu
There are still more buildings we are trying to pinpoint! Stay tuned for more or let us know if you matched one in the comments below! The more proof the better!
Note: Not all are exact and Rockstar has taken liberties with many of them. A few appear to be mixes of two or more buildings. The buildings in the game were matched up with their closest real life counterpart. All photos found via Google with lesser quality used. Some landmarks are subject to change as we find better matches.
Downtown
4th Street Bridge
Bradbury Building
Hotel Figueroa
Pershing Square
Subway Terminal Building
Millennium Biltmore Hotel
Foreman & Clark Building
City National Bank Building |
Figueroa Tower |
800 Wilshire Blvd |
801 Tower |
Citigroup |
Westin Bonaventure Hotel |
811 Wilshire Blvd |
Luxe City Center (facade) |
515 S Figueroa St (similar) |
Wilshire Grand Hotel (facade) |
Jonathan Club (influence?) |
Bunker Hill Promenade (?) |
US Bank Tower |
Heron Building |
Hotel Barclay |
Spring Arts Tower |
1106 S. Broadway |
1000 Wilshire Blvd |
City Hall |
California Plaza |
Hollywood
Popeye's and International Newsstand
~6759 Hollywood Blvd |
Capitol Records |
~6751 Hollywood Blvd |
First National Bank |
Roosevelt Hotel |
Hollywood Sign |
West Hollywood
~9157 Sunset Blvd
Standard Hotel
Whiskey A Go Go
City National Bank, Sunset Blvd |
Sierra Towers |
Key Club |
Sunset Tower |
Beverly Hills
Beverly Hilton
262 North Rodeo Drive (David Orgell)
370 North Rodeo Drive (Cartier) |
280 North Rodeo Drive (Brequet) |
9777 Wilshire Blvd |
Beverly Hills City Hall |
Santa Monica
Lifeguard tower
Santa Monica Pier
Bubba Gump Shrimp Co.
Hippodrome and Restaurant Area
233 Wilshire Blvd
1299 Ocean Ave
El Sermon Del Monte Church or Shutters Hotel
Viceroy Hotel
Fairmont Miramar Hotel |
100 Wilshire Blvd |
Venice
Muscle Beach
Venice Beach Park Restrooms
Venice Beach Park Police Station
Venice Beach Park Pagodas
49 Westminister Ave
1425 Ocean Front Walk
Sidewalk Market, Ocean Front Walk
23 Windward Ave
83 Windward Ave
80 Windward Ave
66 Windward Ave |
64 Windward Ave |
46 Windward Ave |
54 Windward Ave |
Port of Los Angeles
Vincent Thomas Bridge
Rail Bridge
Other Places
Los Angeles Country Club
Marina City Club, Marina del Rey
Griffith Observatory
Vineyards and wineries of Malibu
Equitable Life Building, Koreatown |
Constellation Place? or The Century?, Century City |
San Gorgonio Pass Wind Farm |
There are still more buildings we are trying to pinpoint! Stay tuned for more or let us know if you matched one in the comments below! The more proof the better!
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Comments (54)
- Comment Hidden. Click to show.Missed One (Guest) May 14, 2012 Report-1The part where the tommie vercentie looking guy is gazing out from his balcony, right under his nose i think is the staples center but the writing looks like it sais viking center its hard to read
- Thats must taken hell of a long time. A well deserved good job.I dont think i could of done that my self.
- Googlefluff (Guest) May 05, 2012Man, it's crazy how much info you can get out of one trailer! I could never find all this stuff. Can't wait for GTA V!
- Bland (Guest) May 04, 2012Never noticed all the buildings in the trailer.
- ballz (Guest) April 30, 2012possibly they should make buildings destructable by the way who ever said europe hates you because they put the e u flag down im from bristol in europe and i personaly love the place gta 5 will be in
- Added a few iffy ones I have sat on for a while:
-515 S Figueroa St (similar)
-Wilshire Grand Hotel (facade)
-Jonathan Club (influence?)
-Bunker Hill Promenade (?) - 18diego_dd (Guest) April 06, 2012This is awsome . i loved SA and since i live 30 min away from Downtown LA , this is cool because i have been to 80% of these places. its going to be really easy to remember this map for me like it was for Midnight Club LA
- cr7 (Guest) April 03, 2012wooooooooow sin palabras
- Is it just me or do you not like to see these places in real life? After playing GTA SA as a kid I see these places as places in Los santos rather than LA but maybie thats just me.
- uno what, i wonder if the desert is gonna be in ther. cuz if u look in the trailer at the wind farm, it almost looks like the desert around LA
- Cal (Guest) March 29, 2012In response to the member who claimed they wanted better graphics. Just wait until the second trailer drops. Usually unpolished games are the first to be shown. And the graphics are still better than SA...
- Cool if you can enter into random buildings, DL from the police, and for other things that may be in the game.
- pepe (Guest) March 10, 2012Good job
- mosblind223 (Guest) March 01, 2012Great work TreeFitty!!!
- Wclon (Guest) February 28, 2012Ive been to most of these places and I've seen a lot of these buildings, southern California is one of the coolest places in the world I think and I can't wait to see how fun it's going to be playing there
- I like the look of the Capitol Records building, great finds.
- Converted all pics to .jpg so everything should load a little faster.
- Wes (Guest) February 17, 2012Dude, seriously, this is awesome. I cannot wait for the game to come out! Bookmarking this site fo sho.
- wow I didn't even realise half those buildings were in the trailer!
- Thanks. Just added a few pics yesterday I have been forgetting to upload.
- I'm amazed at how they were able to copy the city so accurately, thanks TreeFitty for the article.
- to alex mcguire i have to admit i hope i rekon yes in a way cause of the technology R* can do so yea i hope to c the real thing man
- Kevin (Guest) January 07, 2012Honestly iGTA5.com is a REALLY great website for real gta fans. :D
I luv the pictures. It looks like you guys put in real effort into matching the pictures in the trailer and in real life!! i can not wait till Grand Theft Auto V
<3 - C. Johnson (Guest) January 04, 2012wow, the game looks better than the actual real life pics. It is so close to reallity. The sure did do their homework on this. i wonder if there will be ocean break and tides. The map looks big. 4 times the size if IV. i love it. no more confined city map. Love the new look.
- billiejoearmstrong (Guest) January 04, 2012woww,goodjob maan..
goodjob rockstar for this game.. - 4GameManAnime4-GTA (Guest) December 29, 2011I want to see Grove Street and some homies!!!
- john (Guest) December 24, 2011Why did they put the EU flag on the gulf course? We're not a country yet, hopefully we never will be, Europe hates us
- Changed MGM HQ in Century City to a newer, better match: The Century.
- @Billy SODMG: Possible. Haven't made a very good match yet.
@Tino Roelofs: Thanks. - Billy SODMG (Guest) December 16, 2011Is the Staples Centre in the game does anyone know?
- MrViking (Guest) says...
WAtching these pictures, do you guys think we might see a 100% replica of LA? (Cept for the names of course).
It's not a replica, but is not as small and reduced as GTA IV. I mean, they won't put all the buildings, they'll put most of the important buildings, so that it will be LA compressed, but not as much as GTA IV. R* said that this was the biggest project they've ever made, so I guess it's 2 or more times the GTA IV map - San Fierro_Freak11 (Guest) December 05, 2011I have see the Staples Center !!!
And a question whould be neverland ranch or Michael Jackson in this game. - JD (Guest) December 02, 2011AMAZING!
**IMPORTANT** You/me/someone NEED to find out where or what that liquor store is out in that desert scene!(It's at the 55 second mark in the trailer) - "bawww credit to other sites bawww"
Or, you know, me and a couple other people scavenged Los Angeles daily after the trailer to pinpoint places. But sure, we stole everything from your favorite site. We didn't do any work at all. Sure. - 5GTA.com (Guest) November 25, 2011Wooow! Respect dude. how could you find all that? Are you from LA??
- bill (Guest) November 21, 2011wow man
- yeah look at buildings close together in GTA V and then look at the real ones, they are no where near eachother in some cases, also LA is FUCKING HUGE. it would take like a decade to recreate it perfectly, then you would need like a fucking CIA server to run the game XD
- No, it is another condensed version of the real world just like GTA IV.
- MrViking (Guest) November 20, 2011WAtching these pictures, do you guys think we might see a 100% replica of LA? (Cept for the names of course).
- some fotos of GTA5 looks very realistic
sometimes more realistic than the original one - Thanks. Basically everyday for the past 2.5 weeks I've been scanning Bing & Google maps trying to match buildings from the trailer. This past week included finding good comparison pics. :P
- Wow! Amazing post Treefitty! This must have took a lot of time! Its really cool to see that some of the buildings actually are based on real buildings.
Enjoyed watched this, good post:)
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