Edmonton City Hall

Coordinates: 53°32′44″N 113°29′24.5″W / 53.54556°N 113.490139°W / 53.54556; -113.490139

City Hall's main pyramid and fountain. To the left is a cenotaph; in the background is the CN Tower.

Edmonton's City Hall was designed by Dub Architects, and completed in 1992. It features two steel and glass pyramids, one 43 meters high (ground to peak), on top of a three-story concrete structure. One pyramid provides natural light for the main atrium, the other for the council chambers.^[1] The building also features a 200-foot clock tower topped with a 25-bell carillon.^[2]

Edmonton's City Hall met with some controversy when it was first announced. The original designs called for the building to be topped with five cones. The cones were meant to pay tribute to the tipis that the First Nations once lived in on the site. The design met with much negative feedback from the public, and was dubbed "the Cone Dome" by the press.^{[citation needed]} Dub Architects then revised their design to replace the cones with the pyramids, with the pyramids designed to be evocative of the Rocky Mountains. The design was received much more warmly by the public, and was dubbed "Pyramid Power" by the press.^{[citation needed]}

Located on the eastern edge of the financial district in Edmonton's downtown, the building is the main feature on Sir Winston Churchill Square. In the winter, the fountain is converted to a skating rink.

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  City Hall interior

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  Council Chambers

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  A monument to the Ukrainian Famine in front of City Hall

References

1. ^ "Edmonton City Hall". CISC-ICCA. http://www.cisc-icca.ca/projects/alberta/Edmonton%20City%20Hall/. Retrieved 2009-04-28. 
2. ^ "Edmonton City Hall, Edmonton, AB". RJC. http://www.rjc.ca/cms/page1216.cfm. Retrieved 2009-04-28. ^{[dead link]}

External links

• Edmonton City Hall