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. |
[edit] Design Team
- 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
[edit] Dallas City Hall on Wikipedia
Dallas City Hall
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- Dallas City Hall, Pei Cobb Freed and Partners web site

