Orlando City Hall, Municipal government building in downtown Orlando, United States.
Orlando City Hall is a nine-story postmodern building at South Orange Avenue and South Street, designed by Heller Manus Architects and completed in 1992. Its light grey stone and concrete facade has vertical piers between rectangular windows, and a projecting rounded podium with a colonnade of cylindrical columns shelters the glass entrance doors. A colourful mural fills the rectangular panel above the main entrance, and a 120-foot copper dome tops the structure.
Orlando City Hall was built by Lincoln Property Company and completed in 1992 at a cost of $32 million, financed with revenue bonds. Heller Manus Architects was the design architect. Construction was overseen by assistant city attorney Lew Oliver. The previous eight-story city hall was demolished in a controlled explosion filmed for the opening scene of Lethal Weapon 3.
The Great Room, a rotunda-like space, serves as the city's formal and informal living room. A grand staircase there leads up to the city council chambers. The building's 120-foot copper dome and granite aggregate precast panels echo civic architecture of the past.
The building occupies the corner of South Orange Avenue and South Street in downtown Orlando, within the CNL Center City Commons complex. Visitors enter through the Great Room, a rotunda-like space with a grand staircase leading up to the city council chambers. The plaza in front is framed by two street lamps at its corners.
The previous eight-story city hall was blown up and the footage was used for the opening scene of the 1992 film Lethal Weapon 3. The current building, constructed by Lincoln Property Company, was completed the same year.
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