The 32-story, 454-foot-tall Los Angeles City Hall opened with a three-day public celebration April 26-28, 1928. Construction started in 1926. Sand for the concrete used came from each of ...

Los Angeles City Hall is a massive, iconic edifice in downtown, but that wasn’t always the case. Over the decades, the place where the sausage gets made has evolved, from small rooms to today ...

As John Pastier, a former L.A. Times architecture critic, wrote in 1973, "fifteen years ago, you couldn't see the Los Angeles skyline from the City Hall observation deck, because you were in it." ...