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The Van Nuys Government Center (aka Van Nuys Civic Center or San Fernando Valley Administrative Center [1]) is a 17.3-acre (70,000 m 2) [2] cluster of buildings in the Van Nuys neighborhood of Los Angeles that houses various local, state and federal government offices and services.
A Dutch passport (Dutch: Nederlands paspoort) is an identity document issued to citizens of the Kingdom of the Netherlands for the purpose of international travel. As the Netherlands only distinguish one category of citizen (Nederlandse (Dutch), NLD), for all countries in the Kingdom, passports are the same for all four countries.
The building actually is not located on municipal Los Angeles land, but in a small (0.90-square-mile (2.3 km 2)), unincorporated area of Los Angeles County enclosed by the city, known as unincorporated Sawtelle. Construction on the Wilshire Federal Building began in 1968 and was completed in 1969. [4] It is 79.43 metres (260.6 ft) high. [4]
United States Courthouse (First Street, Los Angeles), the newest federal courthouse in Los Angeles, located 350 W. First St., open since 2016 [2] Wilshire Federal Building, 11000 Wilshire Blvd., NRHP, opened 1969 [3] Edward R. Roybal Federal Building and United States Courthouse, 255 E Temple St., opened 1996
The building hosts three glass mosaics by Los Angeles artist Richard Haines: Celebration of our Homeland, Recognition of All Foreign Lands, and Of the People, for the People, by the People. [5] The building design was a collaboration between Welton Becket & Associates, Albert C. Martin & Associates, and Paul R. Williams & Associates. [5]
The building was completed in January 1992 and is named for long-serving United States Congressman Edward R. Roybal. In the year after its completion, 1993, it gained publicity as the site of the federal trial of the four Los Angeles Police Department officers who were charged in 1991's Rodney King video beating; the trial being held the year ...
In 1981 the Vista del Arroyo was placed in the National Register of Historic Places and GSA began design work to restore the building as the southern seat of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. In 1995, the building was renamed to honor Judge Richard Harvey Chambers, whose concept it was to bring a Federal courthouse to Pasadena. [2]
The building, which houses federal courts and federal law-enforcement departments, is sometimes called the First Street Courthouse. It is 10 stories tall with 533,000 square feet (49,500 m 2 ) of floor space, containing 24 courtrooms and 32 judicial chambers and stands out in the downtown skyline with its impressive glass façade.