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Continente: América

País: Estados Unidos

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Año: 1901

Estado: Terminado

Descripción:Este magnífico edificio fue comenzado en 1871, instalándose la primera piedra en 1874. Fue terminado oficialmente en 1901, sin embargo, muchas de las oficinas ya estaban instaladas y operando en la década de 1880. El costo fue de 24 millones de dólares, en aquellos tiempos, y tiene 662 habitaciones oficinas.

La estatua de William Pen sobre la torre del Ayuntamiento fue diseñada por Alexander Calder, tiene una altura de treinta y siete pies y pesa cerca de veintisiete toneladas. Una vez instalada, en 1894, sobre el Ayuntamiento la parte de arriba del sombrero está a una altura de 548 pies.

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William Penn

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http://kennected.blogspot.com.es/2010/08/philadelphia-summer-2010.html

La construcción del Ayuntamiento de Filadelfia (Philadelphia City Hall) en estilo Segundo Imperio. La Comisión Histórica de Filadelfia fue creada en 1955 para preservar la historia cultural y arquitectónica de la ciudad. La comisión mantiene el Registro de Lugares Históricos Filadelfia, añadiendo edificios históricos, las estructuras, los sitios de los objetos, y los distritos que lo considere oportuno.

Los 167 metros del Ayuntamiento lo hacian el edificio más alto de la ciudad hasta 1987, cuando el One Liberty Place fue construido. Numerosos rascacielos de cristal y granito se construyeron a partir de finales de los años 1980 en adelante. En 2007, el Centro Comcast superó al One Liberty Place a ser el edificio más alto de la ciudad y hacer de Filadelfia una de las cuatro ciudades de Estados Unidos con dos o más edificios de más de 270 metros.

http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filadelfia

http://sobreeeuu.com/2010/09/09/el-primer-edificio-del-ayuntamiento-de-filadelfia/

Philadelphia City Hall is the house of government for the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. At 167 m (548 ft), including the statue, it is the world's second-tallest masonry building, only .5 m (1 ft 8 in) shorter than Mole Antonelliana in Turin.[3][4] The weight of the building is borne by granite and brick walls up to 22 feet (6.7 m) thick, rather than steel; the principal exterior materials are limestone, granite, and marble.

It was the tallest habitable building in the world from 1901 to 1908 and the tallest in Pennsylvania until 1932 when surpassed by the Gulf Tower in Pittsburgh. It remained the tallest building in Philadelphia until the construction of One Liberty Place (1984–1987) ended the informal gentlemen's agreement that limited the height of tall buildings in the city; it is currently the 16th-tallest building in Pennsylvania.

Design

The building was designed by Scottish-born architect John McArthur, Jr., in the Second Empire style, and was constructed from 1871 until 1901 at a cost of $24 million. Designed originally to be the world's tallest building, by the time it was completed it had already been surpassed by the Washington Monument and the Eiffel Tower, though it was indeed the world's tallest habitable building at the time of opening. It also was the first modern building (excluding the Eiffel Tower, see above) to be the world's tallest and also was the first secular habitable building to have this record: all previous world's tallest buildings were religious structures, whether European cathedrals or, for the previous 3,800 years, the Great Pyramid of Giza.

With almost 700 rooms, City Hall is the largest municipal building in the United States and one of the largest in the world.[5] The building houses three branches of government, the Executive (Mayor's Office), the Legislative (City Council), and the Judicial Branch's Civil Courts (Court of Common Pleas).

The building is topped by an 11.3 m (37 ft), 27-ton bronze statue of city founder William Penn, one of 250 sculptures created by Alexander Milne Calder that adorn the building inside and out. The statue is the tallest atop any building in the world.

William Penn statue atop City Hall tower

Calder wished the statue to face south so that its face would be lit by the sun most of the day, all the better to reveal the details that he had included in the work. The statue actually faces northeast, towards Penn Treaty Park in the Fishtown section of the city, which commemorates the site where William Penn signed a treaty with the local Native American tribe.[6] Beyond Penn Treaty Park is Pennsbury Manor, Penn's country home in Bucks County. Yet another version for why the statue pointed generally north instead of south is that it was the current (1894) architect's method of showing displeasure with the style of the work; that by 1894 it was not in the current, popular Beaux-Arts style; that it was out of date even before it was placed on top of the building.[citation needed] Since the 1990s, whenever one of Philadelphia's four major sports teams is close to winning a championship, the statue is decorated with the jersey of that team.

Closeup of architecture of the upper northeast portion of the building. (2006)

The tower features clocks 8 m (26 ft) in diameter on all four sides of the metal portion of the tower. (larger than the Clock Tower, Palace of Westminster).[7]

The observation deck located directly below the base of the statue, approximately 152 m (499 ft) above street level, offers visitors an expansive view of the city and its surroundings. It is accessed via a 6-person elevator which has glass panels so visitors can see the wooden superstructure inside the tower. Stairs are also provided within the tower, but are only used for emergency exit. The ornamentation of the tower has been simplified, with huge garlands that originally festooned the top panels of the tower having been removed. Once enclosed with chain link fence, the observation deck now uses glass as its enclosure. It is currently the only publicly accessible observation deck in the city.

Penn's statue is hollow, and a narrow access tunnel through it leads to a small (22-inch-diameter) hatch atop the hat.

For many years, City Hall remained the tallest building in Philadelphia by the terms of a gentlemen's agreement that forbade any structure from rising above the William Penn statue atop City Hall. In 1987, it lost this distinction when One Liberty Place was completed. City Hall is still in the midst of a multi million dollar renovation that commenced in the mid 1980s. In the 1950s the city fathers investigated tearing down City Hall for a new building elsewhere. They found that the demolition would have bankrupted the city due to the building's extreme masonry construction.

City Hall is a National Historic Landmark. During 2006, it was named a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark by the American Society of Civil Engineers.[8]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia_City_Hall

02/05/2011 10:00

RSC. El Ayuntamiento de Filadelfia (EEUU) lanza una aplicación de iPhone para luchar contra la corrupción

El Ayuntamiento de Filadelfia (EEUU) acaba de lanzar una aplicación para iPhone con la que pretende luchar contra la corrupción y asegurarse de que el dinero público se gasta adecuadamente.

Cualquier ciudadano que tenga un dispositivo móvil de Apple puede descargarse la aplicación Philly Watchdog con la que puede enviar cualquier tipo de información a la oficina de control del ayuntamiento.

La aplicación permite grabar y enviar vídeos de actividades que pudieran ser consideradas fraudulentas, para remitirlas inmediatamente a las autoridades municipales.

Los usuarios tienen la opción de enviar los incidentes de forma anónima, y poder llamar directamente a los funcionarios que componen la oficina de control.

De acuerdo con la información aparecida en la publicación "on-line" "fastcompany.com", los sindicatos municipales califican a esta nueva herramienta como "excesiva", y alertan de que puede ser usada de forma torticera por parte de ciudadanos disgustados con la administración local.

http://www.servimedia.es/Noticias/DetalleNoticia.aspx?seccion=24&id=138753

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=233083

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=514108

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