Civic Center and Town Hall for Mountain View: Board 4 – City Hall

01/07/1986

Design Matters, Notes

Two draft pages laying out the key design factors and aspects of the City Hall for the new Civic Center; presented with illustrations on the fourth presentation board. One more draft included.

Authors:

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

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 ...

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Photographs

Civic Center & Town Hall for Mountain View: Photographs of project presentation boards 01/01/1986

Project, Drawing

Photographer:

Christopher Alexander/C.E.S., Martinez, CA, U.S.A.

Source:

Negative

Characteristics:

8"x10", B&W

Five images of the presentation boards depicting: 1) The Site Plan drawing, various special features of the building complex and plazas as well as the accompanying explanatory text of the proposed concepts; 2) The floor plans of the building complex, ...