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Los Angeles City Hall is the center of government in the city of Los Angeles, California. It is located in the Civic Center district of Downtown Los Angeles in the city block bordered by Main, Temple, 1st, and Spring Streets.

History

The building was designed by John Parkinson, John C. Austin, and Albert C. Martin, and was completed in 1928. It has 32 floors and stands at 454 feet high. Due in part to seismic concerns, prior to the late 1950s the City of Los Angeles did not permit any portion of any building other than a purely decorative tower to be more than 150 feet high. Therefore, from its completion in 1928 until 1964, the City Hall was the tallest building in Los Angeles, and shared the skyline with only a few structures having decorative towers, including the Richfield Tower and the Eastern Columbia Building. The city hall's distinctive top portion was based on the Mausoleum of Maussollos.

Trivia

  • Tallest base-isolated structure in the world.[1]
  • The concrete in its tower was made with sand from each of California's 58 counties and water from its 21 historical missions.[2]
  • An observation level is open to the public on the 27th floor.
  • The Mayor of Los Angeles has an office in room 300 of this building.
  • Every Tuesday, Wednesday and Fridays at 10:00am the Los Angeles City Council meets here.
  • City Hall and the adjacent federal, state, and county buildings are served by the Civic Center station on the Metro Red Line.
  • An image of City Hall has been on Los Angeles Police Department badges since 1940.[3]

    Popular culture

    The striking work of architecture has been used in popular media, for example:
    • In April 2006, the popular rock band AFI shot music video for their song "Miss Murder" there. They won the MTV VMA Best Rock Nomination in August of the same year.
    • As the Daily Planet building beginning in the second season of the 1950s TV series, Adventures of Superman. Various stock shots were used, some showing the Hollywood Freeway (U.S. Route 101) with many 1950s cars tooling along.
    • As itself in the TV series Dragnet.The first episode of Dragnet (1951)Season 1, Episode 1: "The Human Bomb", Original Air Date: 16 December 1951 was filmed at Los Angeles City Hall. L.A. City Hall always appeared in the series one way or another, as it was embossed on Sgt. Joe Friday's famous badge number 714 that was displayed under the credits.
    • The 2003 Dragnet remake used through-out its introduction, the L.A. City Hall building ariel shot and on the badge.
    • On the popular television series Alias, the CIA black ops unit Authorized Personnel Only is located behind a maintenance door at Civic Station.
    • In the Japanese manga series , The building serves as the headquarters for one of the main occupation armies of the antagonist Principality of Zeon, under Garma Zabi.
    • The City Hall was destroyed in the 1953 film version of War of the Worlds (although the H.G. Wells book has the aliens attacking London, the setting was changed to Los Angeles for the film).
    • Appears in the hit videogame as part of the city of Los Santos.



    The distinctive silhouette of City Hall, at sunrise

    City Hall from Skid Row

    L.A. City Hall as Daily Planet Bldg.

    L A City Hall dissolving into George Reeves "flying"

    As seen from San Pedro and 2nd St

    As seen from ground floor

    Ground Floor view


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    Civic Center neighborhood of Los Angeles, California is the administrative core of the City of Los Angeles and a complex of city, state, and federal government offices, buildings, and courthouses.
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    Downtown Los Angeles is the central business district of Los Angeles, California, located close to the geographic center of the metropolitan area. The sprawling, multi-centered megacity is such that its downtown core is often considered just another district like Hollywood
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    John and Donald Parkinson were a father-and-son architectural team operating in Los Angeles in the early 20th Century.

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    The Eastern Columbia Building is a thirteen-story building located at 849 S. Broadway in the Broadway Theater District of downtown Los Angeles, and is considered by many to be the most beautiful of Los Angeles' historic buildings (one architecture critic called it "Architectural
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    Los Angeles City Council is the governing body of the City of Los Angeles, California, United States. They hold regular meetings in City Hall on Tuesday, Wednesday and Fridays at 10:00am (except on holidays or if decided by special resolution not to meet).
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    Civic Center/Tom Bradley station is an underground island station serving the Metro Red and Purple lines. It features a colorful art installation titled I Dreamed I Could Fly
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    AFI (short for "A Fire Inside"), is an American rock band from Ukiah, California that formed in 1991.

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