City Halls - at least the ugly ones - Page 3

sopas ej · #41 Posted **Jun 23, 2009, 4:28 AM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by texcolo

Both are ugly, but at least Dallas' has some panache.

What? It has a panocha? ¿Donde?

Anyway, back to the topic...

Long Beach, California has an ugly city hall. Its whole civic center is ugly; it includes their main library, which essentially is an underground bunker. Built 1973-1976.

From flickr.com

This is what it replaced...

Long Beach's older city hall, completed in 1923:

From lapl.org

It sustained some damage during the 1933 Long Beach earthquake; in 1933-1934 it was remodeled into a restrained Art Deco style:

From lapl.org

It was demolished, I presume after the current city hall opened (being that the current City Hall is on a different site from where the older city hall was).

harls · #42 Posted **Jun 23, 2009, 1:05 PM**

Here's part of Ottawa's City Hall.. Flar is right, the old one is much better..

(me)

mamie007 on flickr.

flar · #43 Posted **Jun 23, 2009, 4:17 PM**

I'm not sure what the story is with Ottawa and its city halls, but most of the old one looks very recent. The old city hall is based on an International Style building from the 1950s or so, but with a bunch of mystical pyramids and steel towers added sometime very recently (I would guess within the last 20 years). It is now a federal government building, maybe they did these renos? Then they abandon it for the ugly thing they're using now, which looks like a cheap 80/90s building (but must be more recent)

harls · #44 Posted **Jun 23, 2009, 7:13 PM**

Here's a description from that link I posted to old Ottawa city hall..

Quote:

The International Style building was opened on August 2, 1958 by Princess Margaret as a member of the Canadian Royal Family. It is noted for the first building in Ottawa to be fully air conditioned. It was designed by John Bland of the firm of Rother, Bland and Trudeau and is considered one of the most important International Style buildings in Canada. Winning the Massey Medal for design in 1959, modifications were made by Moshe Safdie in 1992-1993. (Wikipedia)

I think the new city hall was built in 2001, don't quote me on that though.. not sure.

alps · #45 Posted **Jul 2, 2009, 4:14 AM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by flar

I'm not sure what the story is with Ottawa and its city halls, but most of the old one looks very recent. The old city hall is based on an International Style building from the 1950s or so, but with a bunch of mystical pyramids and steel towers added sometime very recently (I would guess within the last 20 years). It is now a federal government building, maybe they did these renos? Then they abandon it for the ugly thing they're using now, which looks like a cheap 80/90s building (but must be more recent)

Yeah, Moshe Safdie (Habitat 67, Vancouver Public Library) did the addition when it was still the city hall. The lattice structure was supposed to be an observation tower, but it wasn't in the budget.

I really like the city halls of Boston, Dallas, and Long Beach...

oiler-dude · #46 Posted **Jul 7, 2009, 10:56 PM**

I'm quite fond of Edmonton's hall, actually.

(back side)

This is the old City Hall, in the same spot, it was torn down.

Richard · #47 Posted **Jul 11, 2009, 4:16 PM**

This is the Civic Centre in my home town of Oldham. I always thought it was pretty dull but when I took this photo last Friday lunchtime it looks OK.

The original Town Hall is currently in a state of dire neglect while various plans to turn it into a multiplex cinema or a theatre or a shopping mall or goodness knows what are talked about.

Probably it will end up falling down or burning down.

tdurden5573 · #48 Posted **Aug 27, 2009, 1:11 AM**

In Calgary's defence they did keep the old city hall (which I love). But they replaced it with this horrible pizza pie new city hall which turns its back on the east end of downtown.

Hey, who didnt do things they regret in the 80s..... (sorry for the image size)

latennisguy · #49 Posted **Aug 27, 2009, 7:21 AM**

wow..that's beautiful! Love the juxtoposition of old vs. new.

Paul in S.A TX · #50 Posted **Sep 26, 2009, 8:05 AM**

San Antonio's historic City Hall and historic high rise city chambers building. A new City Hall, courthouse and police HQ high rises are planned.

Current structures.

Kazekage...AMT · #51 Posted **Oct 3, 2009, 3:36 AM**

Ayuntamiento de Motul, Yucátan, México

y tambien de Balancán, Tabasco, México

muy modestos Ayuntamientos...pero en fin Ayuntamientos

Kazekage...AMT · #52 Posted **Oct 3, 2009, 3:41 AM**

prueba de fotos