ARCHITECTURE USA 1980
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Dallas City Hall, Dallas, USA, 1978
The project was completed in three phases.
The City accepted the garage parking areas in November 1974, the Park Plaza in May 1976,
and the building in December 1977.
The cost of design and construction of the building,
the Park Plaza and the garage was over $70 million.
Controversies arose over cost overruns (the original estimated cost was $42.2 million)
and aesthetic issues (was the building too avant-garde?) the problems were addressed,
and work moved on to completion.
I.M.Pei used cast-in-place concrete structure to make integral to both
to interior and exterior of City Hall, to both building and park.
Sloping outward at an age of 34 degrees,
each floor is about nine feet wider than the one below.
The 560-foot-long from has both a symbolic and functional logic.