London City Hall Foster and Partners Urbanism Construction Date: 1998 to 2003 Regional context: London - Urban riverside area Climate: temperate
Social Function: Corporate Biosphere A sustainable building – a delicately balanced and interconnected set of human, architectural, and environmental subsystems.
The building offers flexible office space that can be sub-divided Building typology: into as many cellular offices as Government offices. required or kept open-plan. City Hall is home to the Mayor of Partitions can be solid or London, the London Assembly and transparent. The Chamber allows the Greater London Authority a number of different uses, Also accommodates; gallery, configurations and functions. public library, committee rooms, Collective Spaces administrative offices, and restaurants. There is a visitor center More than half of the total site and a flexible exhibition and area is given over to public space, function space at the higher levels including two large piazzas. with a public viewing gallery at the top. "Members of the public may visit parts of City Hall” Building Cost: The 201,650-square-foot building was constructed for £43 million (about $64 million).
Exhibition space on the 2nd floor, with a view of the Assembly Chamber where many public meetings are held Many public meetings are held in the Chamber at City Hall, which is on the 2nd floor and has seating for 250 members of the public.
McGrow Hill Construction, Architectural Record 02/2003
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