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American City Hall Designs : Architecture

Key United States of America Public Institution Developments

post updated September 6, 2024

US City Hall Buildings – Selection

Civic Architecture Designs in the USA, alphabetical:

Nov 5, 2008
Seattle Civic Center, Queen Anne Hill, Seattle, Washington
Date built: 2006
Design: Foster + Partners, UK, with GGLO

image : narinder sagoo_foster partners
Seattle Civic Center
The Civic Square proposal will set a new standard for mixed-use, high-rise buildings in the northwest. A large public plaza with retail shops, an office tower and residential condominiums are woven together into an engaging landmark.

Aug 26, 2008
City of Vista Civic Center
Date built: –
Design: Carrier Johnson + CULTURE

image courtesy of the architects office
City of Vista Civic Center
Part park, part city hall, and part municipal resource, the Vista complex will be a community destination. The facility includes a library and community room. A novel municipal building combining community and civic uses. Part city hall, part community facility, and part park, the City of Vista Civic Center begins construction today, and will be both a city landmark and community destination. Scheduled to open in 2010, the new City of Vista Civic Center will consolidate city offices, an emergency operations center that doubles as a community room and event space, and the city council’s chambers into a single, environmentally innovative facility.

Cleveland Civic Core, Ohio
Cleveland Civic Core Complex
The Cleveland Civic Core is one of five urban design and planning projects from around the globe to be recognized by the program this year. The program recognizes the best work in urban design, regional and city planning, and community development, and is widely acknowledged as one of the industry’s most prestigious award programs.

Mar 12, 2020
Santa Monica City Services Building, Santa Monica, California
Architect: Frederick Fisher and Partners

photo © Takashige Ikawa, Courtesy Frederick Fisher and Partners
Santa Monica City Services Building
Opening to the public in April 2020, this 50,200 sqft City Services building offers a transformative example of sustainable building design, thinking and foresight into the numerous challenges that will confront cities in the next century. Designed by FF&P along with engineering firm BuroHappold Engineering and general contractor Hathaway Dinwiddie Construction Co., it will be the largest civic building of this density in the world to fulfill the Living Building Challenge, the world’s most rigorous and comprehensive green building standard.

Dec 4, 2019
Del Mar Civic Center, Del Mar, California
Architects: Miller Hull Partnership

Del Mar Civic Center San Diego County
The new Del Mar Civic Center resolves this seaside village’s longstanding need for a centralized venue where people can come together to celebrate community and exercise civic engagement. Prior to this development, Del Mar’s public activities were scattered throughout the city, often occurring in private-sector spaces. The new Civic Center consolidates primary public functions in one location, and places them at the heart of the Village.

Location: USA

Virginia Capitol conservation, Richmond, Virginia
Date built: –
Design: RMJM Hillier

image from architect
This historic preservation project restored Thomas Jefferson’s “Temple on the Hill,”
a classical building dating to 1787, and created a modern, underground visitor entrance that seamlessly blends modern and classical forms.

American Architecture

Key American City Hall Buildings, no images:

Austin City Hall + Public Plaza, Texas
Date built: 2007
Antoine Predock Architect

Chicago Federal Center, Chicago, Illinois
Date built: 1974
Mies van der Rohe, Architect

Dallas City Hall, Dallas, Texas
Date built: 1977
I.M. Pei and Partners

Santa Monica City Hall, California
Date built: 1939
Donald B. Parkinson and Joseph M. Estep

Springfield Civic Buildings, Massachusetts
Date built: –
Moshe Safdie Architects

City Hall Designs

American Architect Studios

Dec 22, 2020
Long Beach Civic Center Master Plan, Long Beach, California
Design: SOM

Billie Jean King Main Library
Long Beach Civic Center Master Plan
The Long Beach Civic Center Master Plan revitalizes 22 acres of downtown Long Beach by creating a new, vibrant mixed-use district that includes a 270,000-square-foot City Hall, 93,500-square-foot Main Library, 232,000-sqft Port Headquarters, and the reactivation of historic Lincoln Park. The undertaking also develops design guidelines for 800 residential units and 50,000 sqft of commercial development and reintroduces the city grid with the regional bike network, buses, and the Metro Blue Line.