A time capsule from the November 1948 formal opening of the Abercrombie Engineering Laboratory was discovered in the building’s cornerstone by demolition crews clearing the way for a new 266,000-square-foot engineering and science building. The coppe
Schiffer Publishing announces City Hall by Arthur Drooker
Los Angeles City Hall (1928). Photography copyright Arthur Drooker from the book City Hall published by Schiffer.
NEW YORK, NY
.-City Hall by Arthur Drooker is the first book to feature striking photographs of the most architecturally distinctive and historically significant city halls in the United States of America. Organized chronologically, this stunning volume presents fifteen remarkable city halls from across the nation, covering the evolution of American civic architecture from the early nineteenth century to the present day and representing a diversity of styles, such as Federalist, art deco, beaux-arts, and modern. Among the city halls documented in the book are New York, the oldest; Philadelphia, once the tallest building in the world; and Boston, the first major brutalist building in the US.