Correspondence

Civic Center and Town Hall for Mountain View: Expressing support to the idea of considering Christopher Alexander as architect for the new Civic Center, for all beauty and quality his project will add to the city

24/09/1986

Administrative, Informative

Sender:

David Week, Ken Costigan, Chris Davenport, Community Based Building Program Ltd., Wewak, Papua New Guinea

Recipient:

Mayor and City Manager, City of Mountain View, Mountain View, CA, U.S.A.

Medium:

Telex

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 ...