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Tuesday, November 7, 2017

Other City Halls

PermaLink to here:
http://meetingthetwain.blogspot.com/2017/11/other-city-halls.html

A Variety of City Halls - Classic and Modern


Following my discussion of Sunnyvale's design for a new Civic Center here:
http://meetingthetwain.blogspot.com/2017/11/sunnyvale-civic-center-plans-2.html
and here:
http://meetingthetwain.blogspot.com/2017/11/sunnyvale-civic-center-plans-traffic-3.html

I thought it might be nice to look at what other cities have done.

First Sunnyvale's old city hall, which was torn down when the Sunnyvale Town Center Mall was put up.


In that same traditional look Calabasas, CA  (population 24,000) built a new city hall and library complex.  Here are some photos.



Interior of Library

City web site is: http://www.cityofcalabasas.com/

Laguna Niguel is in a similar vein:


Los Altos' city hall has a traditional European look:



For those preferring modern, Frank Lloyd Wright's Marin County Civic Center is hard to beat:


Austin TX city hall is modern but completely different:




And one list of top ten nice US city halls (modern and traditional) here:

Including Philadelphia:

and Dallas:

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