Edmonton City Hall

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Edmonton City Hall
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City Hall's main pyramid and fountain. To the left is a cenotaph; in the background are the CN Tower and Epcor Tower.
Edmonton City Hall
General information
Type City hall
Architectural style Postmodern
Address1 Sir Winston Churchill Square
Edmonton, Alberta
T5J 2R7
Coordinates 53°32′44″N113°29′24.5″W / 53.54556°N 113.490139°W / 53.54556; -113.490139
Construction startedJune 1990 [1]
OpenedAugust 28, 1992 [2]
Cost CA$48.9 million [1]
($82.4 million in 2021 dollars [3] )
OwnerCity of Edmonton
Height43 m (141 ft)
Technical details
Floor count3
Design and construction
Architect(s) Dub Architects
Main contractorStuart Olson Dominion [4]
Awards and prizes American Concrete Institute - 1993 Award for Excellence for Design and Construction [5]
Other information
Public transit access Edmonton Transit System logo.svg BSicon TRAM.svg Edmonton Capital Line icon.svg Edmonton Metro Line icon.svg Edmonton Valley Line icon.svg Churchill station

The Edmonton City Hall is the home of the municipal government of Edmonton, Alberta, 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replace the former city hall designed by architects Kelvin Crawford Stanley and Maxwell Dewar in 1957, which had become outdated and expensive to operate. [6] [7]

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Design

The building features two steel and glass pyramids, one 43 metres (141 ft) (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. [8] The building also features a 60-metre-high (200 ft) clock (Friendship Tower) topped with a set of 23-carillon bells. [9] 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.

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 evoke the tipis that the First Nations 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. [10] Dub Architects then revised their design to replace the cones with the pyramids, with the pyramids designed to be evocative of the Rocky Mountains and the Muttart Conservatory.

Temporary renaming

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

Incidents

A firebombs and shooting attack occurred inside Edmonton City Hall on January 23, 2024, causing an estimated $100,000 of property damages. No one was injured or killed. [11] [12] [13]

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  11. ↑ Damage in Edmonton city hall attack estimated at $100K, meetings canceled next week, 26 January 2024.
  12. ↑ ‘Heavily armed’ suspect acted alone in Edmonton City Hall shooting: police, 23 January 2024.
  13. ↑ "Shots fired, Molotov cocktail thrown in Edmonton city hall, 1 arrested: police". Edmonton. 2024-01-23. Retrieved 2024-01-23.
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