Pictures of this one seem to be missing from earlier posts, so here is:
City Hall: San Francisco City Hall Location: San Francisco, California Architect: Arthur Brown, Jr. Completed: 1915 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/922/VFxRi3.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/922/p1ENgd.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/923/vmzZB0.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/924/t2RLI5.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/924/E4WlHY.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/923/ObuKh7.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/922/s5YfW9.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/924/oMzJoq.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/923/LlGRi5.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/921/qboNgT.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/923/GUgJ0O.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/923/TzhzYy.jpg All photos taken by geomorph in 2011. |
San Diego City Hall...probably one of the worst...way overdue for replacement
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Spoonman, San Diego's is indeed an awful one, with quite a few other uninteresting slabs clustered nearby.
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http://www.jetsongreen.com/images/ol...970b-800wi.png Completely different form and style than the San Diego Country Administration Building http://continuumweddings.com/wp-cont...er-Wedding.jpg http://i.embed.ly/1/display/resize?k....jpg&width=810 |
Vegas's isn't very stately or city hall like, but is an attractive building nonetheless.
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City Hall: Las Vegas City Hall
Location: Las Vegas, Nevada Architect: Elkus Manfredi Architects Completed: 2012 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/924/6eYj7f.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/924/oO5wSf.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/922/AfaXgh.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/924/UNubyz.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/923/DjKXgk.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/924/317K2d.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/924/LOoTDh.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/923/9r4x66.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/924/VOazCd.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/924/GSOSWi.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/922/v9bYmY.jpg All photos taken by geomorph in 2017. |
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City Halls
Can someone load photos of the Holyoke, MA city hall? And San Jose, CA and Santa Barbara, CA?
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LA Kurt, see post #182 for San Jose City Hall. I also have many posted in my thread here: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=211177
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Philly wins, although San Francisco is a close second. Not only is the Philly City hall building one of the prettiest and domineering city halls in the country but it's also one of the most impressive buildings in the world in my opinion. A masterpiece of the Second Empire style.
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City Hall: Vancouver City Hall
Location: Vancouver, British Columbia Architect: Townley and Matheson Completed: 1936 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/923/S9FnG6.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/923/8wglRn.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/923/MxYzS0.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/922/Kk01NH.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/923/LwjDKZ.jpg All photos taken by geomorph in 2017. |
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As it was 1900-1905 http://www.foundsf.org/images/b/b0/T...-hall-1905.jpg http://www.foundsf.org/images/f/f7/City-Hall_c1900.jpg http://www.digitaljournal.com/img/1/...l_pre-1906.JPG https://www.weddingphotographersanfr...-city-hall.jpg And then, 1906 https://diddlybop.ru/wp-content/uplo...-city-hall.jpg All images: https://www.google.com/search?q=San+...l-z8TWugNGp0M: |
Holy crap, never knew about that building, it's simply incredible, was anything saved from it after the fire and earthquake?
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Kind of surprised all of the love the old SF City Hall is getting. To my eyes, the new city hall is clearly superior. The old one is overdone with cartoonish proportions and funky symmetry. It's like three or four different buildings trying to fight for supremacy. It's no doubt more unique, but I'm not sure that makes it better.
Anyway, my mayor on his way out is trying to ram through a process to sell our current 1950's modern city hall so a developer can building some garrish PoMo crap on a valuable piece of land. A reminder of what's currently there: https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2509/...d0cdbb23_b.jpg Lansing, Michigan City Hall by Jordan McAlister, on Flickr And some early concepts the city is showing for what could replace it: https://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/a6a...55560-pic1.JPG https://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/ab1...81494-pic2.JPG Never really liked the current style, but it's grown on me, especially when you see what it could be replaced with. In fact, that first concept is actually a tower someone proposed for the riverfront just before the recession that didn't make it. |
I do not know what to say, I can only say that these pictures are very beautiful. Thank you for them!
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I don't think there's any question that from the point of view of architectural sophistication, Brown's product is much superior and the San Francisco Civic Center complex, of which it is a part, has been said to be perhaps the finest grouping of beaux-arts buildings in the US. Still, the pre-quake building is fun in its over-the-top exuberance the way rococco can be fun. |
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