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San Jose City Hall

San José City Hall is the seat of the municipal government of San Jose, California. Located in Downtown San Jose, it was designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Richard Meier in a Postmodern style. It consists of an 18-story tower, an iconic glass rotunda, and a city council chamber wing, laid out within a two-block-long public square known as San José Civic Plaza. The tower rises 285 feet (87 m) above the plaz…

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2005

San Jose, San Jose, United States

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tower civic building glass Civic building

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San Jose City Hall in San Jose, United States

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Seat of the municipal government of San Jose, California

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Richard Meier

Born 1934 · New York, New York, United States

Role: lead architect

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Richard Meier is an American abstract artist and architect, whose geometric designs make prominent use of the color white. A winner of the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1984, Meier has designed several iconic buildings including the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art, the Getty Center in Los Angeles, the High Museu…

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Richard Meier & Partners Architects

practice · New York, New York, United States

Role: designer

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