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Bologna City Council commissioned a new 33,000 m2 office building to house their Municipal head offices. They needed to bring together 1,000 employees currently scattered in 21 locations throughout the city.
Staffordshire County Council HQ design by 3DReid Architects- Stoford Developments’ proposals for £23-m mixed-use development, offices building news
The word chamber refers to an enclosed space or cavity as in a gun and it can also be used to denote a closed hall or room. Chamber is also synonymous of a private assembly or the body of people who meet in the hall or room.
The project envisages a close and direct relationship between the open space and the building that faces it: the main facade of the new building becomes the central element of the square and remains symmetrical with respect to the design of the central space.
The Customs House refurbishment has brought new vibrancy to this important part of Sydney’s heritage. The building now caters for a wide variety of uses including the Sydney City Library over the first three levels.
The Seattle Civic Square project, which completes the final phase of a ten-year civic masterplan, provides a vital new focus for Seattle’s civic life, reinvigorating the south downtown area for the whole city’s benefit.
The site looks down the calm Inland Sea of Japan and has a water conduit within. Its landscape consists of the ridgeline of the mountains and islands faced with the surface of the sea.
Carrier Johnson + CULTURE, a national leader in strategic design and green building, has announced the groundbreaking for a novel municipal building combining community and civic uses. Part city hall, part community facility, and part park.
Kildare County Council Offices. This project is formed around the public space of the people, the civic garden. A slowly inclined ground plane gradually ascends from the street creating a civic amphitheatre for Naas.
Doncasterʼs new civic offices will be located in the heart of the CCQ and become central to plans to transform the Waterdale area of town – building design by Cartwright Pickard Architects
St Georges Hall Liverpool, England – by Harvey Lonsdale Elmes, CR Cockerell -refurbishment, architect, Neoclassical style building, contains concert halls and law courts: restoration news
London County Hall, civic building in England, UK – design by Ralf Knott, architect – London County Hall Building: twenties architecture in England, photos