Los Angeles City Hall rises in downtown Los Angeles, completed in 1928 through a collaboration of three architects, John C. Austin, John Parkinson and Albert C. Martin, who combined elements of Beaux-Arts, Byzantine and Romanesque Revival styles into a single stepped tower rising from a wide base. At the time of its completion, and reportedly under a special exemption from the city's own height restriction of the era, the tower's roughly 138-meter height made it the tallest building in Los Angeles, a distinction it held until the city's general height limit was lifted in the 1950s and 1960s. According to a widely repeated account, the concrete used in the tower's construction included sand gathered from each of California's 58 counties along with water drawn from its major rivers, a symbolic gesture tying the building to the entire state rather than the city alone. The tower's pyramidal, tiered crown, drawing loosely on the ancient Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, has appeared frequently in American film and television as a visual shorthand for Los Angeles city government, and the building underwent a major seismic retrofit completed in 2001 after suffering damage in the 1994 Northridge earthquake.
Facts
Building Typecity hall, government offices 1 LocationLos Angeles, California, United States 1 Completed Year Building Type
Building Type (category) Building Type (category)Government / Parliament Building 2 Classification
Standing Status Connections
Has Building Type
Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.
Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.
In Style
Source Wikipedia: Los Angeles City Hall
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Source Wikipedia: Los Angeles City Hall
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Sources
1. Wikipedia: Los Angeles City Hall
Infobox, type
Government offices
Infobox, location
200 North Spring Street Los Angeles, California 90012, US
Infobox, completed
1928
Infobox, height
Roof 138 m (453 ft)
Entity description and the lead/infobox of the Wikipedia article
Los Angeles City Hall rises in downtown Los Angeles, completed in 1928 through a collaboration of three architects, John C. Austin, John Parkinson and Albert C. Martin, who combined elements of Beaux-Arts, Byzantine and Romanesque Revival styles into a single stepped tower rising from a wide base. At the time of its completion, and reportedly under a special exemption from the city's own height restriction of the era, the tower's roughly 138-meter height made it the tallest building in Los Angeles, a distinction it held until the city's general height limit was lifted in the 1950s and 1960s. According to a widely repeated account, the concrete used in the tower's construction included sand gathered from each of California's 58 counties along with water drawn from its major rivers, a symbolic gesture tying the building to the entire state rather than the city alone. The tower's pyramidal, tiered crown, drawing loosely on the ancient Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, has appeared frequently in American film and television as a visual shorthand for Los Angeles city government, and the building underwent a major seismic retrofit completed in 2001 after suffering damage in the 1994 Northridge earthquake.
- In Style: Art Deco, infobox architectural_style field: Art Deco
Uses Element: Steel, Wikipedia article
This historic landmark is a 36‐story, 460 foot tall, steel‐frame building with riveted connections.
View the Source2. Wikidata: Los Angeles City Hall
- Wikidata Q368489, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
- Wikidata Q368489, P571 claim (w-bbfill-artsarchag-0926)
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