LOS ANGELES ?EUR??,,????'??? Hailed as a uniquely American masterpiece of architecture and design in1928, the Los Angeles City Hall remains one of the most recognized buildings in the United States. As a way to preserve the civic heritage of Los Angeles, it was the goal of Project Restore to pursue the monumental task of restoring the Los Angeles City Hall to its original splendor. Besides restoring architectural elements of the building, modern systems were incorporated to bring the structure up to current safety standards. One of these systems involved the lighting of the exterior fa??? 1/4 ade. Horton Lees Brogden Lighting located in Los Angeles, proposed a reinterpretation of the original exterior fa??? 1/4 ade lighting design in an effort to maintain the unique historic character of the structure and to protect its civic heritage. By utilizing modern day equivalent lighting technologies and energy efficient luminaries that incorporate long-life lamps, the lighting design approach provides a modern day equivalent to what was originally planned for the City Hall fa??? 1/4 ade lighting but only utilizes one fourth of the power. Light levels were balanced throughout to compensate for the higher ambient light levels inherent in a present day metropolis.