Los Angeles City Hall

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Los Angeles City Hall

The Los Angeles City Hall in Los Angeles , California, is home to the City Council and contains the offices of the mayor and the meeting rooms of the City Council .

The 138 m high and from 1926 to 1928 in the style of Art Deco 32-storey building, whose restored facade consists of terracotta and granite , is located in the district of Civic Center in downtown Los Angeles . The initiative for the construction came from Mayor George E. Cryer, who promised the city a new town hall in 1925. Los Angeles City Hall was designed by architects John Parkinson, John C. Austin, and Albert C. Martin, Sr. and was California's tallest building from 1928 to 1964. There is a publicly accessible viewing platform on the 27th floor. Los Angeles City Hall was added to the list of Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments on March 24, 1976.

From 1998 to 2001 it was renovated and retrofitted with earthquake protection for US $ 128 million. The Los Angeles City Hall is the tallest structure in the world with seismic isolation and is designed to remain fully functional even during earthquakes with a magnitude of 8.2. In 2019, a month-long plague of rats led the administration to tear out carpets in the town hall, set traps and smoke out rooms - initially in vain. The situation was worrying as the city health department grappled with the typhus outbreak among the 30,000 homeless and city lawyer Elizabeth Greenwood contracted typhus infection - the disease is transmitted by fleas found in the fur of rats.

The Los Angeles City Hall appears as a backdrop in several popular films such as " Chinatown " or " LA Confidential " or in video games such as Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas and LA Noire .

Web links

Commons : Los Angeles City Hall  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Los Angeles City Hall. In: The World's Building Website . Emporis Corporation, accessed June 19, 2011 .
  2. ↑ Los Angeles City Hall, 200 N. Spring Street. (PDF, 130 kB) In: Historic - Cultural Monuments (HCM) Listing. City of Los Angeles, September 7, 2007, p. 6 , accessed June 19, 2011 .
  3. ↑ Los Angeles City Hall Earns Modernization Award from Buildings Magazine. Clark Construction, April 14, 2003; archived from the original on February 19, 2013 ; accessed on May 12, 2012 .
  4. ↑ AFP: Los Angeles City Hall fights against the plague of rats. In: FAZ.net . February 9, 2019, accessed April 30, 2020 .
  5. ↑ ene / AFP: Los Angeles: rat plague and typhus infection in town hall. In: Spiegel Online . February 9, 2019, accessed April 30, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Magdalena Hamm: Los Angeles is fighting against typhus outbreak among the homeless. In: Spiegel Online . October 19, 2018, accessed April 30, 2020 .

Coordinates: 34 ° 3 ′ 13 "  N , 118 ° 14 ′ 34"  W.