A Green City Hall Means a Colorful Christmas

By Eric Richardson
Published: Wednesday, July 18, 2007, at 08:43AM

Sean Bonner [Flickr]

DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES — The recent greening of City Hall sparked a good bit of conversation. My first thought on seeing it, though, was to wonder if this meant that Jan Perry's March 2006 Holiday Lighting motion was finally coming to pass.

Jan's motion asked various City departments to report on what it might take to get a little holiday lighting going, particularly in Downtown. In the course of discussion the lighting of City Hall came up as a primary objective and GSD spec'ed out what such lighting might cost. In the end nothing happened in time for the 2006 holiday season.

I emailed Jan's office to ask if the green lighting was the same lighting that GSD had recommended, and if this then meant that City Hall would be getting a seasonally-appropriate coloring around Christmas. The answer finally came back, "Yes and yes."

Facts you might not know: City Hall has 225 lights illuminating its exterior. Fitting those lights with lens holders was projected to cost $33,000, and each set of colored lenses was said to run $15,000.

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Cathy writes:

I hope they at least keep all the light bulbs in working condition. It seemed some of them, particularly towards the top, were starting to look like they weren't lit a few months ago. That's why I was relieved to see the color changes not long ago, assuming the workers who installed the colored lens also made sure at the same time that the lights behind those lens weren't burnt out.

# on Jul.18.2007 AT 08:58 AM

Coleman writes:

Wow, and here I thought this whole time that this was part of a film shoot. Great news that it's for Holiday lighting.

# on Jul.18.2007 AT 10:19 AM

downtown toilet writes:

what other colors are in the palette? we'll need red for valentine's day, orange for halloween, green for st. patrick's day and for shrek 4. can we get rainbow colors for gay pride?

# on Jul.18.2007 AT 12:57 PM

LAofAnaheim writes:

I saw it from Dodger Stadium...looks awesome.

# on Jul.18.2007 AT 02:45 PM

Ed Fuentes writes:

Remembering the Empire State Building lit in various colors, I always liked this idea for City Hall and written about it in print and blog. I didn't know until this post that Perry was working on it since 06.

Gay Pride? Could be pink. Opening Week of baseball season, Blue. Lakers in the finals (someday) Blue and Gold. The 4th, Red White and Blue. Someone of national significance passes away? Dark.

So many options for one of the best looking buildings on the West Coast.

# on Jul.18.2007 AT 03:37 PM

Visitor writes:

It would be great if the fountains and floodlights of the Los Angeles Water and Power building also were switched on (the floodlights were last used briefly during an inaguration event for the mayor) or left on more hours of the day.

# on Jul.18.2007 AT 04:41 PM

VictorAtomic writes:

Awe ... The Holidays are coming, Yes Downtown needs some light pole ornaments and such to live'n up the place. Cant wait till next year when most of the residentials are filled and LA Live is active as well.

# on Jul.18.2007 AT 08:29 PM