City Hall
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LB Civic Center: A New City Hall
The current Long Beach city hall is a fourteen story tower of rough concrete and steel, faced in Darth Vader-black glass overlooking a decrepit and frankly hideous civic center plaza. A marvel of 1970s design and engineering, its structural flaws threaten to topple it in event of a major earthquake. In my dream redesign of…
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A New Long Beach Civic Center
The city of Long Beach, California is currently in the midst of pouring over proposals to replace it’s vintage 1970s era Civic Center with a newer, larger, more environmentally friendly structure. Long Beach has a rich history of city halls, starting from its first building constructed during the last decade of the 19th century. It…
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