Nestled in the heart of Beverly Hills sits its Spanish Renaissance City Hall, serving as both the political and emotional backbone of one of America's most storied cities.
An icon of the Late Moderne style, Burbank City Hall epitomizes the best of civic architecture in terms of aesthetics as well as function and remains a point of pride for the City of Burbank.
The plaza’s focal point, a tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr., is a large sculpture of angled white planes arranged in a circle and converging at the top.
The mirrored glass skin would become ubiquitous on corporate architectural designs of the 1970s 80s, but it fittingly saw its start here in the world of aerospace.
Clad in white concrete onto which public service messages were once projected including appeals for purchase of savings bonds, this cold-war era jewel exemplifies Corporate Late Modernism at its finest.
The 1959 building's modern design has long been recognized as an important example of mid-century office design and incorporates contrasting materials and forms as well as significant interior elements
Lifted up on its graceful pilotis, the futuristic Municipal Services Building must have generated many passing glances from Glendale motorists when it opened almost forty years ago—and it remains a head-turner today.
The oldest surviving government building in the Los Angeles Civic Center is an imposing presence with classical detailing and matching facades on all four sides.