Pasadena City Hall

The Pasadena City Hall is the city hall of Pasadena in the U.S. state of California and dominates the Pasadena Civic Center. It was in 1927, completed as part of the City Beautiful movement, which had the goal to make cities more livable in the style of Beaux -Arts architecture and has elements of Spanish Colonial Revival architecture and Mediterranean Revival architecture, which at this time were popular in the United States. One of the architects, John Bakewell, described the design as a modern interpretation of Renaissance architecture in Italy in the 16th century.

It was designed by the architectural firm of Bakewell and Brown and opened on December 27, 1927. The Pasadena City Hall is six stories high and has 235 rooms. Above the west entrance is a 62.79 -meter-high dome that marks the entire building complex. The former construction costs amounted to 1.34 million U.S. dollars.

In the film The Great Dictator by Charlie Chaplin, the Pasadena City Hall is a Handlungsort and provides a Villa dar. In the film the sky is so close to her courtyard as a backdrop for a marketplace of a town in the Napa Valley.

On 28 July 1980 she was accepted as Pasadena Civic Center District on the National Register of Historic Places.

From July 2004 to June 2007, the Pasadena City Hall was closed for renovations. In this case, U.S. dollars have been restored among other historical buildings, renovated the air conditioning system and the foundations for reasons of earthquake protection seismically isolated for 117 million. On 5 June 2008, the Pasadena City Hall was during a solemn ceremony of the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED ) with the level of quality gold award for green building.