Correspondence

Civic Center and Town Hall for Mountain View: Handwritten, informal note, with suggestions on the most useful scales for a model, on the necessity to do research on large scale theater designs, and suggestions for board layouts, a model, presentation and review of the competition

01/07/1986

Design Matters, Notification

Sender:

Hansjoachim Neis, Center for Environmental Structure, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Recipient:

Christopher Alexander, Center for Environmental Structure, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Medium:

Letter

Content of

Project

Civic Center & Town Hall for Mountain View 1986

Mountain View, CA, U.S.A.

Civic, Designed , Invited Competition, Not built

Client:

City of Mountain View - Mr. Michael Freedman, c/o ROMA, urban design consultant to the city

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, Artemis Anninou, Hansjoachim Neis, Ingrid Fiksdahl-King, Gary Black

Project cost:

Expected construction cost: $17,000,000

Project stages:

Design Development

Invited design competition entry. One of five invited entries and winner of first round selection process. The project with 100,000 square feet of total area of construction included: a) the new City Hall building 65,000 sq.ft.; b) Community Theater with ...