Dallas City Hall, Dallas, Texas

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Dallas City Hall
Designer Pei Cobb Freed & Partners Architects LLP, New York, New York, USA
Location Dallas, Texas, USA
Date February 1966 to December 1977
Building Type Government Building
Construction System cast-in-place concrete
Climate Hot Temperate
Context Urban
Architectural Style Modern
Street Address
Notes with Harper and Kemp, Dallas, Texas, USA.

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Building Details
Client City of Dallas
Stories 10
Height 114 feet
Length 560 feet
Width 126 feet (at ground level); approx 200 feet (at roof)
Site 4.7 acres, approx.
Program offices, Great Court, reception lobby; 250-seat council chamber; 4.7-acre plaza with 180' diameter pool, 2-level underground disaster shelter, 1,325-car garage
Awards Excellence Award, American Consulting Engineers Council, 1979
Other Details Building's front facade cantilevers outward 34 degrees, resulting in each floor overhanging the one below by approximately two structural bays of 4'-8" each.



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  • Architect: I. M. Pei & Partners (I. M. Pei and Theodore J. Musho)
  • Associate Architect: Harper and Kemp, Dallas, Texas, USA
  • Structural Engineer: Terry-Roselund and Company, Dallas, Texas, USA
  • MEP Engineer: Gaynor and Sirmen, Inc., Dallas, Texas, USA
  • Landscape Architect: Myrick, Newman & Dahlberg, Dallas, Texas, USA
  • Planning & Traffic: Ponte-Travers & Associates, Clifton, New Jersey, USA
  • Urban Design & Master Planning: I.M. Pei & Partners

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