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City Hall's distinctive tower was modelled after the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, [8] and shows the influence of the Los Angeles Public Library, completed shortly before the structure was begun. An image of City Hall has been on Los Angeles Police Department badges since 1940. [9]
Los Angeles' 1949 master plan called for branch administrative centers throughout the rapidly expanding city. [2] In addition to the main civic center downtown, there is the West Los Angeles Civic Center in the Westside (built between 1957 and 1965) and the Van Nuys Civic Center in the San Fernando Valley, as well as a neighborhood city hall in San Pedro.
A tong (Chinese: 堂; pinyin: táng; Jyutping: tong4; Cantonese Yale: tòhng; lit. 'hall') [1]: 53 is a type of organization found among Chinese immigrants predominantly living in the United States, with smaller numbers in Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom. In Chinese, the word tong means "hall" or "gathering
The Hall of Justice was designed in Beaux-Arts style by the Allied Architects Association, a coalition of Los Angeles-based architects founded in 1921 to design public buildings. Participating architects included Octavius Morgan , Reginald Davis Johnson , George Edwin Bergstrom , David C. Allison , Myron Hunt , Elmer Grey , Sumner Hunt , Sumner ...
In the 1960s, 70s and 80s there was a restaurant at the top of the building—The Tower—that served award-winning French cuisine. [5] It originally included two other large buildings - a 225,000-square-foot (20,900 m 2 ) building at 1149 Hill Street, a 300,000-square-foot (28,000 m 2 ) building at 514 W 12th Street (which was later sold to ...
It included the Los Angeles Country Club and the Sawtelle district, and all the Santa Monica Mountains west of Sawtelle to the Ventura County line, including Pacific Palisades and Topanga Canyon. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] In 1928, the northern boundary was at the "crest of the Santa Monica Mountains and the west boundary the city limits.
Los Angeles's 14th City Council district is one of the fifteen districts in the Los Angeles City Council. The district, which has a large Latin American population, includes the neighborhoods of Boyle Heights , Downtown Los Angeles and parts of Northeast Los Angeles .
Tongyang or Tong Yang may refer to: Tongyang Group, South Korean conglomerate; Tongyang Confectionery, former name of Orion Confectionery, South Korean company formerly owned by the Tongyang Group; Tongyang Daegu Orions, former name of Goyang Orions, South Korean basketball team formerly owned by the Tongyang Group