Avenue Foch with chestnut trees along its full length. The Avenue was constructed during the reign of Emperor Napoleon III, as part of the grand plan for the reconstruction of Paris conducted by Napoleon's Prefect of the Seine, Baron Haussmann. It was designed to connect the Place d'Etoile with another important part of Haussmann's plan, the Bois de Boulogne, the new public park on the west end of the city. The original plan, by Jacques Hittorff, who had designed the Place de la Concorde decades earlier, called for an avenue forty meters wide between the modern Avenue Victor Hugo and the modern
Avenue of the Stars, Century City 1985 to 1987. The SunAmerica Center, located at 1999 Avenue of the Stars, and designed by the architectural firm Johnson Fain, was built from 1989 to 1990. The 2000 Avenue of the Stars building was built from 2004 to 2007. The high-rise buildings along the avenue are home to many offices and diplomatic consulates. Some of them include: Avenue of the Stars, Century City The Avenue of the Stars is the main thoroughfare in Century City, Los Angeles, in the southwestern part of the U.S. state of California. The avenue is one of the main roads in Century City, a