The Edmonton City Hall is the home of the

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, Canada. Designed by Dub Architects, the building was completed in 1992. It was built to replace the former city hall designed by architects Kelvin Crawford Stanley and Maxwell Dewar in 1957, which had become outdated and expensive to operate.

Design

The building features two steel and glass

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, one (ground to peak), on top of a three-storey concrete structure. One pyramid provides natural light for the main atrium, the other for the council chambers. The building also features a clock Friendship Tower topped with a set of 23-carillon bells. Located on the eastern edge of the financial district in Edmonton's downtown, the building is the main feature on

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. In the winter, the fountain is converted to a skating rink. The design for the city hall met with some controversy when it was first announced. The original design called for the building to be topped with four cones. The cones were meant to pay tribute to the tipis that the

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once lived in on the site. The design met with negative feedback from the public as they felt it looked like dunce caps and nuclear reactors. Dub Architects then revised their design to replace the cones with the pyramids, with the pyramids designed to be evocative of the

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and the

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Temporary Renaming

The building was temporarily renamed the "

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Civilian Pavilion" for 24 hours in August 2021, for a debut of his most recent documentary. Nathan Fillion was born in Edmonton in 1971.

Gallery

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in front of City Hall

References

External links

Edmonton City Hall
{{Edmonton landmarks Government buildings completed in 1992 Buildings and structures in Edmonton Municipal government of Edmonton City and town halls in Alberta Tourist attractions in Edmonton Pyramids in Canada Clock towers in Canada