Edmonton City Hall / Hôtel de ville d'Edmonton
1980
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada- Public building
- Building
- Town hall
The Architectural Program defines the requirements for a new Edmonton City Hall, and has been developed in response to the following objectives:
1. To improve public access to City Hall services.
2. To reduce the operational inefficiencies associated with the current dispersed pattern of accommodation.
3. To increase management effectiveness especially between corporate and department levels.
4. To reduce the long term costs of accommodating City Hall functions.
5. To provide the people of Edmonton with a widely acknowledged downtown landmark appropriate for a city evolving as one of the major urban centres in Western Canada.
The City Hall Competition encompasses both the City Hall site and Sir Winston Churchill Square, an existing but relatively undeveloped urban park. The City Hall site itself includes an outdoor Ceremonial Area associated with the Symbolic Entrance to the City Hall building. The purpose of the Competition is to produce a design concept for the proposed City Hall building and its major adjacent outdoor spaces. It is not intended that the design will be resolved to a great level of detail. In fact, the design must contain sufficient flexibility to allow for modification in City Hall functions over the course of the design process. The City of Edmonton has set the objective of developing a City Hall and urban park which will serve as a major civic focus. As the project will be the largest and most prominent development in an important downtown location, it is critical that it be integrated into the broader urban context.
(From competition brief)
Note: All visual documentation is taken from the periodical "The Canadian Architect/March, 1981"
1. To improve public access to City Hall services.
2. To reduce the operational inefficiencies associated with the current dispersed pattern of accommodation.
3. To increase management effectiveness especially between corporate and department levels.
4. To reduce the long term costs of accommodating City Hall functions.
5. To provide the people of Edmonton with a widely acknowledged downtown landmark appropriate for a city evolving as one of the major urban centres in Western Canada.
The City Hall Competition encompasses both the City Hall site and Sir Winston Churchill Square, an existing but relatively undeveloped urban park. The City Hall site itself includes an outdoor Ceremonial Area associated with the Symbolic Entrance to the City Hall building. The purpose of the Competition is to produce a design concept for the proposed City Hall building and its major adjacent outdoor spaces. It is not intended that the design will be resolved to a great level of detail. In fact, the design must contain sufficient flexibility to allow for modification in City Hall functions over the course of the design process. The City of Edmonton has set the objective of developing a City Hall and urban park which will serve as a major civic focus. As the project will be the largest and most prominent development in an important downtown location, it is critical that it be integrated into the broader urban context.
(From competition brief)
Note: All visual documentation is taken from the periodical "The Canadian Architect/March, 1981"