Los Angeles City Hall

The Los Angeles City Hall in Los Angeles, California, is the seat of the city administration and contains the offices of the mayor and the assembly rooms of the City Council.

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

From 1998 to 2001, for 128 million U.S. $ a renovation and retrofitting in terms of earthquake protection. The Los Angeles City Hall is the tallest structure in the world with seismic isolation and yet remains fully functional even with earthquake with a magnitude of 8.2.

In several popular television films and series such as Alias ​​- The agent, Perry Mason, Adventures of Superman and Atlas, the world throws from the Los Angeles City Hall was Handlungsort. Also in the video games Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, SWAT 3 and LA Noire she emerges as a backdrop.