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:
Lansing, Michigan City Hall by
Jordan McAlister, on Flickr
And some early concepts the city is showing for what could replace it:
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.