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Martin, founder of the architectural firm that would grow over successive generations into the formidable A. As well as Martin and his collaborators understood the efficiency of verticality as a means of accommodating growth — though both of those collaborators did serve on the commission that limited building height in the first place — it would take the city itself more than half a century to start internalizing the idea. What City Hall may lack in iconic recognizability it makes up for with an almost subconscious symbolic power.
Though few Angelenos could draw the building from memory, they have seen it over and over again, and so, at this point, has much of the rest of the world. Anyone familiar with past eras of Los Angeles has to be impressed at the sheer quantity of public space Grand Park offers, if not certain aspects of that space's quality: anyone who attempts a Prince-style performance on the City Hall steps will find themselves cut off from the park by Spring Street.
That not one but a total of three streets run through Grand Park shows that Los Angeles has come to an understanding more of the importance of such urban spaces than of their mechanics. But then, the urbanization of Los Angeles has arguably taken one step back with every two it takes forward ever since the end of the foot height limitation in , which came along with a set of parking requirements nearly as onerous as the law repealed.
Martin Partners, perhaps due to its long history in Los Angeles, has ways of succeeding within its self-imposed limitations: they designed the Union Bank Tower , the city's first post-repeal skyscraper, as well as the Wilshire Grand Center, the tallest building in Los Angeles today. The precedent of City Hall itself as a site of spectacle actually dates back to its opening day in — or rather, its opening three days, the length of its epic dedication celebration involving a three-mile-long parade, hundreds of floats, aerial bombs that happened to shatter a few of the building's newly installed windows, Civil War veterans, a performance by Irving Berlin, and the entire lighting supply of MGM, all directed by movie-palace magnate Sid Grauman.
But when the Lindbergh Beacon, by that point already replaced with a non-rotating red light, went dark after Pearl Harbor, it wouldn't enter service again until the 21st century. Some want to break up this city, but I don't think we should allow that to happen. The secessions didn't happen, but one can still safely call Hahn's words less inspired, in every sense, than the ones printed in the program of City Hall's original celebration:.
But Angeleno attitudes, so often characterized in the later decades of the 20th century by self-disparaging resignation, have in recent years turned to some degree back toward the proud, optimistic triumphalism of old adhere though their expression now may to a stricter modern sense of political correctness , or at least a renewed civic pride. That process has gone hand in hand with the development of Los Angeles' public space: closing to cars the roads that segment it, Grand Park draws tens of thousands many of whom take the city's expanding subway system there every December 31 to watch the light shows, more elaborate each time, projected onto City Hall's concrete surfaces.
Even the Lindbergh Beacon sits reinstalled and ready for illumination, along with the customizable colored lighting lining the building below, on important occasions: not just New Year's Eve, but Lakers and Dodgers victories, shows of solidarity with disaster-inflicted foreign countries, and, last year, the death of Prince. City Hall may have fallen from its status as the tallest building in Los Angeles by far to 30th place, but what other tower in the city could pull off the color purple?
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