Los Angeles City Hall

The Los Angeles City Hall is an Art-deco skyscraper designed by Parkinson & Parkinson and built between 1926 and 1928 in Los Angeles, CA.

Its precise street address is 200 North Spring Street, Los Angeles, CA. You can also find it on the map here.

The Los Angeles City Hall is a structure of significant importance both for the city of Los Angeles and the United States as a nation. The building embodies the distinctive characteristic features of the time in which it was built and the Art Deco style. Because of that, the Los Angeles City Hall was officially included in the Los Angeles Register of Historic Places on March 24^th 1976.

The building underwent a major restoration between 1997 and 2001. The architect commissioned to undertake this restoration was A. C. Martin Associates.

Parkinson & Parkinson was the architecture firm in charge of the architectural design. But there was also one other architect involved, as far as we know. We are talking about Austin Whittlesey.

Parkinson & Parkinson and the other architects already mentioned were in charge of the architectural design, however, architecture is a complex discipline, which usually involves many professionals from different fields, without whom this building would have not been possible. We will surely be leaving out a lot of names here, but here is a list of the people we do know also played their part in making the Los Angeles City Hall a reality:

• Nabih Youssef Associates in charge of Structural Engineering
• Bovis Lend Lease as the Main Contractor

The Los Angeles City Hall can be categorized as an Art-deco building.

The Los Angeles City Hall was completed in 1928, right when the Art Deco movement was at its peak, so it kind of went with the trend at that time.

The Los Angeles City Hall uses a frame structure made of steel columns and reforced concrete slabs.

A frame structure uses a combination of beams and columns to sustain the building's weight. The walls in this case are non-load bearing, which allows for more flexibility when distributing the interior spaces.

From an aesthetic point of view, the facade features gray terracotta combined with California gray granite.

Other materials found at the Los Angeles City Hall include, bronce, covering the walls of the elevator cabins were made using cast bronze, allowing for the creation of various decorative relief designs, and concrete, used in the tower construction was made with sand from each of California’s 58 counties and water from its 21 historical missions.