Baltimore's City Hall

http://www.vanderweil.com/images/historical/baltimore.jpg

http://www.nextelphotoshare.com/users/125870/42827_0_425.jpg

http://www.mahanrykiel.com/portfolio/parks/p-p-warmemorial01.jpg

los angeles

http://www.seeing-stars.com/Images/slides/CityHall2.JPG

http://cache.corbis.com/agent/11/51/51/11515187.jpg

Seattle's is 722' tall
http://www.silentera.com/CBD/img/keyTower.jpg

Syracuse's

http://www.pbase.com/ciceroclay/image/30069011/medium.jpg

Seattle's is a new 7 story building, not that tower shown above, is it? I know the City of Seattle owns the building above, but I thought the government offices were in the Seattle City Hall Building.

http://www.djc.com/special/01Top20/cityhall.jpg

http://www.cityofseattle.net/cityarchives/Resources/CityHall/images/imagebankcityhall.jpg

Built 1889-1906

Then:

http://img166.exs.cx/img166/6117/cityhall28ur.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)

Interior, Father of Waters:

http://img56.exs.cx/img56/1916/cityhall40gy.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)

Now:

http://img142.exs.cx/img142/964/cityhall7oc.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)

Interior, Father of Waters:

http://img56.exs.cx/img56/5269/cityhall34nt.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)

The one on the right is the City-County building:

http://homepages.wmich.edu/~g0podols/pics/demf/46.JPG

This is the old one; it was razed in the 50's or 60's:
http://hellodetroit.com/Detroit/images/City-hall-1942.jpg

Thankfully we still have the old county building:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~miwayne/detwayctybldg.jpg

Houston's City Hall

http://www.pbase.com/bnick/image/24897045.jpg

http://img10.exs.cx/img10/1602/aa612cq.jpg

Chicago City Hall, aka; Daley's Palace
http://patsabin.com/illinois/cityhall.jpg
http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~xou/album/Chicago01/city-hall.jpg
http://florian.rototo.org/un%20week%20end%20a%20Chicago%20sept%202003/originalimages/36-%20le%20City%20Hall%20de%20Chicago.JPG


Rooftop garden:
http://www.asla.org/meetings/awards/awds02/images2/imagesjpg2/Chicago%20City%20Hall-7.jpg

http://people.msoe.edu/~reyer/mke/1895c.jpg

Seattle's is a new 7 story building, not that tower shown above, is it? I know the City of Seattle owns the building above, but I thought the government offices were in the Seattle City Hall Building.

http://www.djc.com/special/01Top20/cityhall.jpg

http://www.cityofseattle.net/cityarchives/Resources/CityHall/images/imagebankcityhall.jpg

Your right LMichigan. Why did I do that? As many times as I've been in there. Good grief.

no, isnt it in both?

Wherever the city council meets is the city hall.

http://www.nintendorks.com/eric/archives/whereiworknormal.jpg/whereIworknormal.jpg

UGLY

Was the Lafayette Hotel:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v511/krosejr/Lexington%202/lafayette_hotel.jpg

Now the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government Building (since 1980)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v511/krosejr/Lexington%202/Picture355.jpg

The San Francisco City Hall before 1906.
http://www.alamedainfo.com/SF_City_Hall.jpg

After 1906.
http://www.alamedainfo.com/SF_City_Hall_Ruins.jpg

The Current San Francisco City Hall
http://img215.exs.cx/img215/9036/sanfranciscocityhall9rk.jpg

^thats very unfortunate, that first city hall is a beauty

And the second one is still better than most in this country. I can't complain much there.

http://www.ci.chi.il.us/Landmarks/images/landmarks/c/cityhall1a.gif

that's chicago's city hall (well half of it is, the other half of the building is the county building). in the 1960's it was realized that the structure was much too small to house all of the offices and courtrooms for the city and the county, so an adjunct facilty was built across the street, the 650 ft. Richard J. Daley Center. it is, in my opinion, the finest example of an international style skyscraper anywhere in the world.

http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/fa267/20th/chicity2.jpg

Boston-
http://frank.harvard.edu/~jason/summer1998/CityHall.jpg

http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/kallmann/front.jpg

That statue of the "Father of the Waters" gives me the creeps. Waaaay too much detail in the eyes. On the other hand, it's not every day you see such a well-muscled senior citizen sitting around naked on an alligator, fondling corn.

Anyway, here's Asheville's contribution, the art deco City Building:

http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/asheville/buildings/cit1.jpg

http://skyscraperpage.com/gallery/data/728/161cityhallphoto.jpg

Dome detail:

http://skyscraperpage.com/gallery/data/728/161cityhall.jpg

Everytime i visit Boston and walk by that monstrosity i cant help but be mad. Boston has some nice historic architecture and then they build that?

Here's Lansing City Hall which also includes the downtown jail. The historic city hall was torn down for this more modern version which is now also too small. It's the building on the corner.

http://skyscraperpage.com/gallery/data/500/71city_hall_and_anderson_house.jpg

http://skyscraperpage.com/gallery/data/500/71city_hall_skyscrapers_com.jpg

The Boston City Hall looks VERY similar to the Federal Building in Indy...I will look for a pic.

Everytime i visit Boston and walk by that monstrosity i cant help but be mad. Boston has some nice historic architecture and then they build that?

Yea I know, it's absolutely horrible...Especially when you see the Old City Hall which is a beauty
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v633/tmac9wr/cityhall.bmp

http://www.well.com/~wolfy/Victoria/0905/Web/0155-2004-0905-0853.jpg
http://www.maltwood.uvic.ca/Architecture/ma/urban_planning/images_urban/centennial_square/city_hall.jpg
^^^Victoria, BC City Hall

http://www.keywordplus.com/photos/pictures/vanc-city-hall.jpg
http://www.japan-guide.com/sakura/2002/CityHall/0404_01.jpg
^^^Vancouver, BC City Hall

i don't live in a city, so yeah...whatever.

Here's Richmond's Old City Hall
http://www.redsplash.com/ims/pic.php?u=2445H1XRh&i=18721

We need a Philly forumer, who knows how to post pics, to post pictures of Philly's City Hall. We have one of the grandest in the country.

http://www.emporis.com/en/il/im/?id=234398
http://www.emporis.com/en/il/im/?id=245170
http://www.emporis.com/en/il/im/?id=209531
http://www.emporis.com/en/il/im/?id=120471
http://www.emporis.com/en/il/im/?id=177097
http://www.emporis.com/en/il/im/?id=336518

It is 548 feet tall to the top of the statue on top.
It is also (I believe) the largest municipal building that is in continuous use in the country (maybe also in the world, I'm not 100% sure).

^^Philly most definitely has the best city hall in the US

^^Philly most definitely has the best city hall in the US

yes it does

http://img205.exs.cx/img205/7035/philly43hn.jpg

http://img205.exs.cx/img205/9682/philly218ok.jpg

http://img205.exs.cx/img205/1584/philly221dx.jpg

http://img205.exs.cx/img205/2301/philly244ih.jpg

http://img205.exs.cx/img205/913/philly274xs.jpg

http://img205.exs.cx/img205/7746/philly361rw.jpg

http://img205.exs.cx/img205/2766/philly508ha.jpg

Nice pictures. :)

Philadelphia City Hall has so much impact on this wonderful city that it is kind of sad. It is probably the single most influencial structure constructed in the past century or so (it is a little older than 100 years) in Philadelphia, for good and for bad.

XX

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v69/Citysky/Buffalo%20Niagara%20Square/125_2532.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v69/Citysky/Buffalo%20at%20Night%20%20II/IMG_4771.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v69/Citysky/Buffalo%20at%20Night%20%20II/IMG_4776.jpg

oooooh Yeaaaaaaaaah!

This just opened, so it was really difficult to find any decent pics on the web. Also, FYI there are several levels underground, so it is actually quite larger than it appears.http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/cityhall/images/model_southeast_large.jpg http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/cityhall/images/interior.jpghttp://roborant.info/images/cityhallexterior.jpg http://roborant.info/images/cityhallinterior.jpg http://roborant.info/images/cityhallbeak.jpg

City Hall Kansas City, MO

Since I can't figure out how to post a pic, here is the link:

http://www.kcskyscrapers.com/kcpics/art-deco/city_hall

http://www.kcskyscrapers.com/albums/art-deco/city_hall.sized.jpg

http://www.kcskyscrapers.com/albums/Buildings/building_city_hall_001.sized.jpg

http://***************/kcgridlock/kansascity?p'74&n=

Before & After

http://www.bayciti.net/huh/civic/cityhall_const.jpg

http://www.bayciti.net/huh/civic/cityhall6.jpg

Delete

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v618/starcode/CityCountyBuilding2.jpg

Another one

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v618/starcode/slc07.jpg

I really like the City Halls in Minneapolis and Milwaukee. They remind me of the International Court of Justice in The Hague. I'm also a big fan of the capitol-esque style, like Baltimore's and San Francisco's.

Miami's

http://www.ci.miami.fl.us/images/cityhall.jpg

Coral Gable's

http://www.miamidade.gov/filmiami/gallery/gov1.jpg

And can't forget Opa Locka

http://www.soulofamerica.com/images/photosfl/miami/OpaLockaCityHall.jpg

wow.. Miami city hall is just atrocious.. :( too small and outdated for such a large modern city.

from what I've seen, San Francisco, Buffalo, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia have the best city halls in the US..

http://www.ci.sf.ca.us/images/cityhall/bmp/Mvc-384x.bmp

http://ah.bfn.org/a/niagSq/65/ext/cityhall1.jpg

http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~kulisics/images/domestic/los_angeles/day/city_hall.jpg

http://img205.exs.cx/img205/7035/philly43hn.jpg

Omaha's absolutley sucks ass. Instead of building a new one they are just squeezing a new addition onto the front of it. The old one used to look like Minneapolis'.

http://eomaha.com/gallery/buildings/63/pic1.jpg

The Douglas County Courthouse isn't to bad though. All though I wouldn't try to photgraph it again because the last time that happened I was detained as a terrorist suspect. Plus I can tell you first hand there is a big jail on top of the courthouse. The courthouse and City Hall are connected. I think the best City Hall ever is Toronto's and then Philly's.

http://eomaha.com/gallery/buildings/3/pic6.jpg

Baltimore's City Hall:

http://www.pratt.lib.md.us/exhibits/catorprints/nat/cityhalltoday.jpg

http://www.charleshagenah.com/hp/baltimore/baltimore1.jpg

Toledo's 22-floor City Hall that was built in 1982:

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y297/Decker9999/JacksonBlvdSkyline.jpg
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y297/Decker9999/CityGovtBldg.jpg

SF's city hall use to be the state capital building I think. It explains the similarity in design anyway. Or maybe that building was destroyed in the earthquake. When I went to SF I stayed in a hotel very close to it. Its nice.

St. Louis City Hall:

http://207.160.50.21/images/imagedb/structures/cityhall.jpg

http://stlcin.missouri.org/images/imagedb/structures/cityhall2.jpg

http://stlcin.missouri.org/images/imagedb/structures/cityhallpic1.jpg

SF's city hall use to be the state capital building I think. It explains the similarity in design anyway. Or maybe that building was destroyed in the earthquake. When I went to SF I stayed in a hotel very close to it. Its nice.

The SF city hall was never the state capitol. Neither the pre 1906 earthquake city hall nor the current one ever acted as the state capitol. There were about a half-dozen locations for the Callifornia state capitol before Sacramento, but only one of those buildings remain. Specifically the one-time capitol building in Benicia. The capitol building in Sacramento was completed in approximately 1865. By the way, when referring to a governmental entity/location such as the "capitol building" or the "state capitol", the word capitol is always spelled with an "o". The word "capital" is a financial term.

New York City Hall
http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcas/images/buildings/man_cityhall.jpg
http://image06.webshots.com/6/1/20/54/82812054LNxdVq_ph.jpg
http://www.disaster-management.net/pic/nyc_city_hall.JPG

Brooklyn Borough Hall, City of New York
http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcas/images/buildings/brk_bhfront.jpg
http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcas/images/buildings/brk_bhalldome.jpg
http://www.aviewoncities.com/img/nyc/kveus0647s.jpg

Brooklyn Municipal Building, City of New York
http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcas/images/buildings/brook_muni1.gif

Bronx Borough Hall, City of New York
http://www.viewsof.com/usa/newyorkstate/newyorkcity/bronx/yankees/nyny9810bronx1.jpg

Manhattan Municipal Building, City of new York
http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcas/images/buildings/man_muni.gif
http://www.greatgridlock.net/NYC_Images/014.jpg
http://image06.webshots.com/6/1/18/55/82811855iAgfSW_ph.jpg

Queens Borough Hall, City of New York
http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcas/images/buildings/queen_bh.jpg
http://www.angelfire.com/ny5/nyfoto/qnsborohall.jpg

Staten Island Borough Hall, City of New York
http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcas/images/buildings/si_bhall.jpg

Wichita, Kansas City Hall

http://www.wichita-information.com/photogallery/albums/userpics/10001/normal_Nov%2002%20-%20city%20bldg%204.JPG

I don't have a picture of it but City Hall in Phoenix is really nice

Here. How's this:

Phoenix City Hall/Municipal Building
http://www.ci.phoenix.az.us/FILMPHX/cih3.jpg

I can't believe I forgot about Oakland's City Hall. :bash:
http://www.worldfromtheweb.com/Parks/Oakland/P5090047.jpg

and this is San Jose's
http://www.ci.san-jose.ca.us/pub_wrks/CivicCenter/images/webcam/CivicCenter.jpeg

Miami's

http://www.ci.miami.fl.us/images/cityhall.jpg

Coral Gable's

http://www.miamidade.gov/filmiami/gallery/gov1.jpg

And can't forget Opa Locka

http://www.soulofamerica.com/images/photosfl/miami/OpaLockaCityHall.jpg


Opa Locka's looks like a mosque, and Miami's is just plain ghetto.

Miami's is an old cruise terminal building...I believe.

Milwaukee's hall was the third tallest building int he world when completed.

ATL does pretty well in this category:

http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/atlanta/buildings/Cit2.jpg
http://www.atlantaga.gov/client_resources/government/urban%20design/ach.jpg
http://www.library.gsu.edu/spcoll/spcollimages/av/lane/jpeg/LBGPF3-040d.jpg

This the Louisville City Hall, however I'm not certain if this is where the new metro council is currently held.

http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ky/jefferson/postcards/lctyhl.jpg

http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/kentucky/louisville/cityhall/side.jpg

http://www.city-data.com/cpicv/vfiles2256.jpg

Another picture of Milwaukee's City Hall which is to go under a $70 Million Restoration soon.

http://graphics.jsonline.com/graphics/news/img/aug05/goulcol082205.jpg

DALLAS City Hall

http://pages.sbcglobal.net/samclark/dallas/dallas_city_hall.JPG

Outside
http://www.maxwell.syr.edu/maxpages/faculty/gmbonham/Rochester-City-Hall-1.jpg

Inside (not what you'd expect after seeing the outside, but still, stunning)
http://www.thetravelzine.com/images2004/Rochester%20City%20Hall%20atrium.JPG

http://csag.ucsd.edu/individual/lxin/PhotoAlbums/Photo/album16/aab.jpg = a cool pic of madison, wi's. couldnt figure out how to paste it =(

http://csag.ucsd.edu/individual/lxin/PhotoAlbums/Photo/album16/aab.jpg = a cool pic of madison, wi's. couldnt figure out how to paste it =(

just add img tags



http://csag.ucsd.edu/individual/lxin/PhotoAlbums/Photo/album16/aab.jpg

thanks

http://www.ci.chi.il.us/Landmarks/images/landmarks/c/cityhall1a.gif

that's chicago's city hall (well half of it is, the other half of the building is the county building). in the 1960's it was realized that the structure was much too small to house all of the offices and courtrooms for the city and the county, so an adjunct facilty was built across the street, the 650 ft. Richard J. Daley Center. it is, in my opinion, the finest example of an international style skyscraper anywhere in the world.

http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/fa267/20th/chicity2.jpg



I am from Chicago and I think the Daley center is pretty drab and ugly. I would not shed a tear if they put a wrecking ball to it.

There is little of the "international" style I do like though so maybe that is just a bad start from the get go for me right there. I love the look of San Frans and Minneapolis city hall.

Chicagos Daley building though could just be be put in Schaumberg or or a suberburn office complex and not look out of place.

Anaheim City Hall:

http://www.anaheimcolony.com/images/cityhallwest.jpg

Stanton City Hall:

http://www.ci.stanton.ca.us/images/002c.jpg