Dallas City Hall
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- This article is about the city hall of Dallas, Texas. For city halls in other cities named Dallas, see relevant articles at Dallas (disambiguation)
Dallas City Hall is the seat of Dallas municipal government, located at 1500 Marilla in the Government District of downtown Dallas, Texas (USA). It was completed in 1978 and was designed by I.M. Pei in the modernist architectural style [1] — like many of his buildings, Dallas City Hall is very angular and is designed like an inverted triangular prism.
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[edit] Construction
The physical location of the city hall was left to the citizens of the city proper of Dallas, when the city council appointed a Citizen's City Hall Study Committee in 1964 to select an appropriate site.[2]
[edit] Trivia
- Dallas City Hall appears in the movie RoboCop serving as Omni Consumer Products headquarters. Matte painting is used in the movie in order to give the appearance of a much taller building.
- Appears in Ursula K. Le Guin's "The Lathe of Heaven".
- The design of Dallas City Hall inspired the J. Erik Jonsson Central Library building located across the street – whereas the upper floors of City Hall are oriented toward Marilla Street, the upper floors of the Central Library are oriented away from Marilla (and, in a form of symmetry, away from City Hall).
- Dallas City Hall makes multiple appearances during the four seasons of the television series Lois and Clark as Star Labs from the comic book series Superman.
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[edit] External links
- Dallas City Hall is at coordinates Coordinates:
[edit] References
- ^ Dallasarchitecture.info - Dallas City Hall - Retrieved 20 April 2006.
- ^ dallascityhall.com - Dallas Facts and Statistics - Retrieved 15 September 2006.
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