Cleveland City Hall
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Opa-Locka, FL City Hall

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Coral Gables, FL City Hall

http://www.atyourservice-tourstoyou...._city_hall.jpg


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Opa-Locka, FL City Hall looks like a mosque!

Opa-Locka FL has one crazy-looking city hall! Crazy name, too. Apparently, Opa-locka has the largest collection of Moorish Revival architecture in the Western hemisphere:

The city was developed by Glenn Curtiss and was based on the Arabian Nights theme, with streets that have names like Sabur Lane, Sultan Avenue, Ali Baba Avenue, and Sesame Street. Opa-locka has the largest collection of Moorish Revival architecture in the Western hemisphere...........Amelia Earhart launched her historic trip around the world from Miami Municipal Airport, just south of Opa-locka.[6] The famous German dirigible Graf Zeppelin visited the NAS Miami, which later became Opa-locka Airport, as a regular stop on its Germany-Brazil-United States-Germany scheduled route.....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opa-locka,_Floridahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opa-locka,_Florida

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Here's another pic:

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Opalockacityhall.jpg

St. Augustine, FL City Hall (formerly Alcazar Hotel)

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They light Denver's up during the holidays:


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Did Buffalo at one point think it was going to be the greatest city in the world?

At one point it was.

Read up on some Buffalo history. Maybe not the "greatest in the world", but Buffalo was without question one of the most prominent cities in the US in the first half of last century. It is easily one of our most important cities historically.

Asheville NC City Hall
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/rongunzburger/3709629123/


Savannah GA City Hall
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/puggles/193023534/


Athens GA City Hall
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/amberlrhea/2057771446/

Charleston City Hall:

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Can't sleep. City-County Building will eat me.

Chicago

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Jesus Christ Richard Meier is beyond awful. He builds that same white and glass box over and over and over, what a hack. Here's our Meier abortion in Phoenix:

http://www.phdc.eu/uploads/pics/WP1_09_Phoenix_01.jpg

Its the Federal Courthouse. A giant glass box with no shade in a desert, brilliant job asshole. Not only that, the roof is open to dust storms, the mister system at one point was designed in such a way that it was carrying legionnaires disease, its a super block that cuts off Downtown from the State Capitol, just a total monstrosity.

Please don't take this as a knock on San Jose either, Ive never been there, Im sure its nice. In fact I feel a little more connected to SJ too knowing they have to suffer with a prominent civic building designed by one of the worst 'starchitects' out there.

See the county courthouse thread

Here ya go: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...06#post4724306

That isnt that flattering of a photo of the Federal Courthouse, but reading up on the building, the idea of it is actually really impressive and a worthwhile attempt. Of course I cant say how well it has worked in the end, but this reminds me of a building in Germany I believe that is designed to basically have its own internal microclimate in order to better control the temperatures of the building in a more passive way, and the project in Germany was very successful, so I could see why Meier would want to try it here.

Plus there is also a theory that goes along with this building, that it is creating a visual transparency with the law...looking at photos of the building, I can definitely see that idea in it.


Also, I am really loving the castle looking city halls, some of them look funny, but if you are gonna be a small city might as well have an old outlandish city hall.

Warwick, RI City Hall
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Providence, RI City Hall
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Quebec City Hall - different views

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...u%C3%A9bec.jpg
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%B4...de_Qu%C3%A9bec

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3176/...aa1_z.jpg?zz=1
http://www.flickr.com/photos/macro/2...n/photostream/

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http://www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com/b...ille/index.htm

In 1930

http://www.quebecurbain.qc.ca/images/2004/0116-1a.jpg
http://www.quebecurbain.qc.ca/2004/0...tes-vers-1870/

QC's is lovely.

QC city hall is loveley indeed I can attest to this as I have seen it on numerous occasions

You either hate it or you love it:
Mississauga Civic Center (Ontario)
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Built to reflect the agricultural past of Mississauga, it represents a windmill (clock tower), farmhouse (main taller part), barn (large pentagon), and silo (cylinder)

And of course I get to represent the rest of the Greater Toronto Area's fantastic city halls...

Old Toronto City Hall:
http://0.tqn.com/d/gocanada/1/0/K/B/..._City_Hall.jpg

And, of course, the fantastic city hall that STILL looks futuristic after 43 years..
http://www.hickerphoto.com/data/medi...all_sc0509.jpg

I really appreciate modern city halls, and Toronto has one of the nicest.

And I think it's great that the original city hall was preserved. I think you can build new without demolishing old.

^^^ The situation with the old and new Toronto City halls reminds me of Chicago's City Halls with the modern Daley Center being adjacent to the Classical City Hall.

Pleased to see someone already mentioned Savannah City Hall. I find it to be beautiful in both how ornate and well-crafted it is, but it is still very modest in scale. It was built from 1901 to 1906.

http://www.historictours.com/savanna...-city-hall.jpg

http://www.worldatlas.com/webimage/c...s/cityhall.jpg

One more of Los Angeles....

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2152/...6538ebff_b.jpg

Two more of Pasadena....

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Redlands, California

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This is San Bernardino's existing City Hall, which was designed by César Pelli.

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by MÔÔNÇhyld

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The structure is slated for adaptive reuse as part of an urban resort, however. And, a new City Hall and County Seat have been proposed for another site.

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This is Arrowhead Plaza, which is the current seat of San Bernardino County government and which would also be replaced.

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University City MO
 

(from Architect Magazine):

"Originally known as the Woman's Magazine Building, the tower was built by Edward Gardner Lewis as the headquarters for his Lewis Publishing Co., which produced Woman's Magazine and Woman's Farm Journal.

Architect Herbert C. Chivers designed the tower, which springs from a limestone base and features buff-colored brick walls alternating with large, stacked windows framed by terra cotta ornament. Inside, an impressive marble staircase connects first- and second-floor offices surrounding a central rotunda. To attract attention, Lewis had a large searchlight installed on an elevator that rises out of the domed roof, sweeping it across the fairgrounds of the 1904 World's Fair in nearby Forest Park. It was great promotion, and tours were offered of the building and the adjacent printing plant."

http://C:\Documents and Settings\eli...nts\My Picture

(council chamber)

http://C:\Documents and Settings\eli...ts\My Pictures

(exterior)

http://C:\Documents and Settings\eli...ts\My Pictures

(lobby)

http://C:\Documents and Settings\eli...ts\My Pictures
(mayor's office)

OT question
 

How does one post photos that don't have a URL tag? :koko:

Kind of surprised Kansas City Missouri's hasn't gotten more love given how many art deco fanboys we have here. Doesn't rank among the greats, but that's not to say its a bad building.

My favorite City Hall which I think is beautiful, and interesting is the NYC City Hall which is also my home town. :)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi..._City_Hall.jpg

The most majestic city hall: Philadelphia
 

In my opinion the city hall that combines elegance, grandeur, and opulence ... really the most beautiful of them all:

PHILADELPHIA

http://i55.tinypic.com/az9zd3.jpg

PHhiladelphia's is one of my favorites.

Baltimore City Hall (1867-1875)
 

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Close up
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Aerial looking east
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Interior dome (top to bottom)
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Circa 1900. "Baltimore City Hall." Rising behind a web of wires.
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City Halls
 

Can someone post a picture of the Holyoke MA city hall? I don't know how to insert pictures.
http://holyokemass.com/blog/wp-conte...e45.jpghttp://

Are we not counting the Pyramids as a building?

We, here in Denver, really like to use our city hall for a lot of things.

Crazy lights for the Broncos:

http://denverinfill.com/blog/wp-cont...nOrange-01.jpg
http://denverinfill.com/blog/2014/02...o-broncos.html

http://denverinfill.com/blog/wp-cont...nOrange-02.jpg
http://denverinfill.com/blog/2014/02...o-broncos.html

Shooting off fireworks:

http://www.neilcormanimages.com/blog...ark-Denver.jpg
http://www.neilcormanimages.com/

http://svcdn.simpleviewinc.com/v3/ca...E1F33A242E.jpg
http://www.denver.org/things-to-do/d...nver-4th-july/

And of course, decking it out for the holidays:

http://media.thedenverchannel.com/ph....0_640_480.jpg
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news...holiday-season

http://blog.denverrenaissance.com/.a...f182970b-500wi
http://blog.denverrenaissance.com/de...sance/2011/11/

Yes, each building has its own beauty and charm. I think these all are beautiful and master piece of art.

it's fine, but i wish the old cleveland city hall building was still around -- it was less imposing, more folksy, more humane and more interactive with the street level. you can really see the changes going on in cleveland and in america in those times in both of these city halls. the city and country were growing and getting less gee-gaw, aww shucks and more business-like! :cheers:

http://i1340.photobucket.com/albums/...pszbd8glyh.jpg

I think Philly, Milwaukee and Buffalo win this one.

Smaller photos were posted before, but St. Louis's City Hall is worth revisiting.

Some different angles:

https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4144/...fe010f10_b.jpgSt. Louis City Hall by damjrok, on Flickr

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7011/...6bbbc0a6_b.jpgSt. Louis City Hall - July 2011 by Larry Senalik, on Flickr

Main entrance:
https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3242/...af569e4c_b.jpgCity Hall by McBusby, on Flickr

What the building looked like with original tower(s) intact:
https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3387/...9bcb08f3_b.jpgSt. Louis City Hall by Missouri History Museum, on Flickr

Inside:
https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8328/...641cdc9c_b.jpgSt. Louis City Hall by hannibal1107, on Flickr

Philadelphia's City Hall was the world's tallest building from 1901-1908.

And continues to be the world's tallest masonry building since 1953.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ust_Street.jpg

Thats an Interesting fact. Baltimore's City Hall is made of the same snow white marble -- dug from a string of canyonlike pits in the Baltimore County area of Cockeysville -- it was also used for such notable buildings as the Capitol in Wahington, and the Washington Monument. Many of the city's well-known white marble steps also came from the quarry.

My favourites:
 

Dallas

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...sCityHallB.jpg

New Orleans

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ns_Letters.jpg

Boston

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi..._city_hall.jpg

Old Ottawa City Hall

This building was Ottawa's City Hall from 1958 to 2000, since then it has been offices for the federal government. The international-style tower block was built in 1958 and expanded in 1993 in the postmodernist style by Moshe Safdie. Beautiful if you're into PoMo.

1958 building:

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Panda Associates, http://contentdm.ucalgary.ca/cdm4/it...SOBOX=1&REC=11

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Panda Associates, http://contentdm.ucalgary.ca/cdm4/it...SOBOX=1&REC=19

1993 addition (click images for full size):

http://i.imgur.com/EYmbAFal.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/9QzE7yYl.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/p7UT8Wol.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/Vsg9Gpol.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/SFPqnrEl.jpg

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All photos Safdie Architects http://www.msafdie.com/#/projects/ottawacityhall