Category: Town & City Hall | ArchDaily

New Town Hall of Scharrachbergheim / AL PEPE architects

Hadir Al Koshta — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 03:00:00 +0000

The new town hall of Scharrachbergheim, a small Alsatian village, seeks horizontality and transparency to integrate into this magnificent wooded site. The external regular framework of the wooden structure affirms the public dimension of the building, while ensuring a timeless aesthetic. The dark and velvety tint of the protective pine tar and the refined and elegant sizing of the wooden columns echo both the village's colombages and the site's trees. The corten steel expanded mesh cladding gives an almost woven appearance to the facade while reminding the tones of local stone (Vosges sandstone), very present in the historic village. The ensemble is contemporary but rooted, rigorous but gentle. As if it had always been there.

City Hall Remchingen / Steimle Architekten

Valeria Silva — Wed, 01 Jan 2025 10:00:00 +0000

The new town hall in Remchingen, on a prominent site between federal highway B10 and the green space along the river Pfinz, is conceived as a new center for encounters and communication. Its immediate vicinity is dominated by the Remchingen Cultural Center and a nursing home, which are discrete, self-referential freestanding buildings that do not form an urban spatial relationship to each other.

the Breeze Hall / SHISUO design office

Pilar Caballero — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000

The Breeze Hall is located in Lu Xun Park, the most important memorial park in Shanghai. It originated from a patch of mixed woods on the south side of the Lu Xun Memorial Museum, which was fenced off and designated as a dead corner left by urban development. In 2023, SHISUO Design Office was commissioned to reorganize this site—some trees were transplanted to the south, creating a walkway together with the existing trees in front of the Lu Xun Memorial Museum, and also providing a soft boundary for the new building. Other trees were moved to the flanks of the site, forming a large enclosed open space. Large trees and bamboo within the site were retained, and the newly placed pathways harmoniously interacted with them——All these adjustments endow the site with greater publicness.

Lyngby Town Hall / ERIK arkitekter

Hadir Al Koshta — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 12:00:00 +0000

The modernist building has been fully renovated and retains many of its original qualities. ERIK arkitekter has restored the town hall based on its key architectural ideas while futureproofing it with contemporary workspaces. Lyngby Town Hall, designed by the now passed-away architects Hans Erling Langkilde and Ib Martin Jensen, joins the ranks of Scandinavian functionalist town halls from the mid-20th century — think, for instance, of Aarhus City Hall by Arne Jacobsen and Erik Møller or Gunnar Asplund's Gothenburg Town Hall. The building was originally inaugurated in 1941.

The Veil City Lounge / Groundwork Architects & Associates

Hana Abdel — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

“The Veil” City Lounge captures the essence of its surroundings at Sungang, Shenzhen, and showcases unique design concepts to create a harmonious blend of contrasts. Situated in a vibrant yet running down, rough, and masculine neighborhood, our building embodies the metaphor of a beautiful entity patiently biding its time, waiting to reveal its true allure. Much like a delicate veil being unveiled, it is a captivating structure in its environment.

Parramatta Town Hall / DesignInc + Lacoste + Stevenson Architects + Manuelle Gautrand Architecture + TKD Architects

Hana Abdel — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 02:00:00 +0000

Situated in the heart of Sydney, the restored Parramatta Town Hall stands as a seamless blend of historical reverence and contemporary flair. Reopened 140 years after its establishment in 1883, the town hall remains a central gathering space for the community. Integral to the vision is its connection to PHIVE (Parramatta Civic Hub)—a vibrant community, cultural, and civic hub within the local landscape adjoined to the lively Parramatta Square. The collaborative effort of DesignInc, Lacoste+Stevenson, Manuelle Gautrand Architecture (MGA), and TKD Architects overseeing heritage restoration ensures a harmonious balance between the site's rich history and the demands of a modern entertainment venue.

Memuro Town Hall / Atelier BNK + Sozo Sekkeisha

Pilar Caballero — Sat, 09 Mar 2024 02:00:00 +0000

This is a project to rebuild the Memuro Town Hall Government Building located in the Tokachi region. Taking advantage of the site that serves as a node between the center of the town (station/shopping district) and public facilities, we created a place for the townspeople inside the government building and aimed to create an open government building that is the core of intimate town development that can be walked around.

Festival Hall / Figures Architectes + Depeyre Morand Architectures

Andreas Luco — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 10:00:00 +0000

The project, a collaboration between Figures Architectes and Depeyre Morand Architectures, consists of the construction of multifunctional hall for the town of La Norville (Essone, 91, France). The hall will be used both as a village hall and as a private space available for rentals.

Town Hall and Community Center / Bez+Kock Architekten

Pilar Caballero — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 06:00:00 +0000

The extension of the historic town hall in Holzwickede offered the opportunity to merge the market square in terms of urban development and to give the town hall itself a new wholeness. The listed town hall, built in 1915, was preserved and recognizable as a solitary structure. At the same time, an angular structure was added to it in such a way that a new urban solitaire was created in which the existing building is a self-evident part of the larger whole.

Høje-Taastrup City Hall / PLH Arkitekter

Hadir Al Koshta — Mon, 29 May 2023 12:00:00 +0000

In Høje-Taastrup you find one of Denmark's most innovative and unique city halls. The "Citizens' House" is ambitious and forward-looking in its design – featuring a great work environment, sustainable solutions, and visions of strengthening the local communities. Nine floors. Eye-catching, transparent facade with playful angles. Large, inviting rooftop terrace, which can be opened to the public. Høje-Taastrup's city hall stands out as a significant architectural landmark. The building is designed by PLH Arkitekter in collaboration with ALL and COWI out of a vision of developing modern, flexible work environments for employees, while at the same time giving back to the city and its citizens.

Oy-Mittelberg Town Hall / Muffler Architekten

Thuto Vilakazi — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 09:00:00 +0000

Identity: The design task poses the fundamental question of how to deal with the village structure of Oy-Mittelberg and the associated surroundings. The new town hall is meant to form a symbiosis with the existing structure and closes the urban space towards St.-Anna-Square. The result is a building that continues the structural form of the site and implements functional necessities. The orientation towards traditional construction methods, the associated choice of materials, and the optimization of the building services contribute to a contemporary administrative building, which considers the issue of sustainability over the entire life cycle of the building from production, through use, to deconstruction.

Leiden City Hall / Office Winhov

Paula Pintos — Sat, 03 Dec 2022 02:00:00 +0000

Leiden's City Hall has been renovated and made more sustainable. Adapted to the new working methods of local government, the City Hall offers the municipality an appropriately rich and welcoming stage that again reflects the original allure of this monument – one with roots going back to the 14th Century.

Uppsala Town Hall / Henning Larsen

Paula Pintos — Thu, 27 Oct 2022 03:00:00 +0000

In collaboration with SLA and Tyréns, Henning Larsen has designed an extensive transformation and extension of the Swedish town hall for Uppsala Municipality Arenas and Properties north of the Swedish capital Stockholm.

Antwerp City Hall / HUB + Bureau Bouwtechniek + Origin Architecture and Engineering

Paula Pintos — Mon, 08 Aug 2022 01:00:00 +0000

The City Hall becomes a true ‘house of the city’. The ground floor and Noble floor will be (partially) opened up to the public while all councilors and their staff will be brought back under one roof. In addition, the façades and interiors needed to be completely restored, while the building also had to be readied for the future in terms of comfort and energy performance (BREEAM standard: ‘excellent’).

Project U Building / archipelago

Andreas Luco — Mon, 28 Mar 2022 03:00:00 +0000

A large disused office building from the 1970s, located at the southern edge of Brussels, is now transformed into a vibrant new town hall for the municipality of Uccle. Designed by archipelago, this town hall will offer workspace for 450 public servants and reconnect the building to the neighborhood by opening up a lush green public garden.

Lambeth Civic Quarter / Cartwright Pickard Architects

Pilar Caballero — Fri, 11 Feb 2022 10:00:00 +0000

Lambeth Civic Quarter is centered around the refurbishment and expansion of the 1908 grade II listed Lambeth Town Hall in Brixton and the construction of an 11,000sqm BREEAM Excellent Civic Centre. In addition to the Town Hall and Civic Centre, the master plan also includes three residential schemes at Somerset Place, Ivor House, and Olive Morris House.

Rosa Parks Community Center / OVERCODE architecture urbanisme

Valeria Silva — Fri, 04 Feb 2022 12:00:00 +0000

Etampes Town Hall wants to build a new community center for the Croix de Vernailles neighborhood, a modern urban area built in the 1960s on top of a hill up north of the city center. The existing facilities are dispersed all over three different buildings in the neighborhood making it very difficult to create a cohesive social project. Moreover, in recent years, the neighborhood has seen a dramatic increase in population making the existing spaces too small.

Town Hall of Gembloux / DEMOGO

Valeria Silva — Sat, 11 Dec 2021 13:00:00 +0000

Gembloux is a medieval city in Wallonia, which is characterized by the historical value of some pre-existing buildings: the Beffroi (Unesco heritage bell tower), the Église Décanale, and the Maison du Bailly. The municipality of the city has decided, by joining the Europan competition, to start an urban renewal process starting from the project for the new town hall.

Salem City Hall / Estudio Primitivo González | eGa + mmp Architects

Andreas Luco — Sun, 07 Nov 2021 13:00:00 +0000

Salem is a prosperous locality in the vicinity of the Bodensee. One of the main attractions is a lake, populated in the summer months by holidaymakers from the area. The Salem Gemeinde decided to build the town hall as the centerpiece of a new urban development next to the lake, which also includes residential and commercial buildings, offices, and parking. The town hall links the existing town to the lake, via a new park.

Baltmannsweiler Town Hall / ZOLL Architekten Stadtplaner

Paula Pintos — Tue, 24 Aug 2021 10:00:00 +0000

A new town hall, which is a modern building, due to its importance, fits in with appropriate dominance in the urban environment. The scale of the surrounding building structure, which is shaped by the local area, is preserved and the newly formulated room edges structure the adjoining streets and plazas.

Etterbeek City Hall / BAEB + Bureau Jaspers & Eyers Architects

Valeria Silva — Fri, 02 Jul 2021 12:00:00 +0000

The goal of the project was to give a new identity to the administration of Etterbeek and bring together all the different functions in one building the city administration a public social action center and a local police station. We designed this particular shape to increase communication and flux between existing neighborhoods. The organic shapes flow around public spaces creating plazas, paths, and courtyards.

Neuhaus Salon / Baukooperative

Paula Pintos — Mon, 28 Jun 2021 03:00:00 +0000

The order, an event hall for festivities. A supplement to the venerable inventory. Salon Neuhaus is a glass pavilion surrounded by green space.

New Town Hall Prague 7 / BOD Architekti

Andreas Luco — Thu, 08 Apr 2021 13:00:00 +0000

Expressions used during the reconstruction refer to the morphology and materials of Holešovice, the building respects a historical context of the district with its specifications, honor local industrial aesthetics. The original building was stripped to the core, only the necessary loadbearing constructions were left and the beautiful structural skeleton was exposed. The beauty of the civil engineering constructions lies in their sincerity and honesty. Therefore we honor the rhythm of the structure. We work with the motives which uplift a common building and make it noble as the town hall belongs. The town hall is a public building and it serves the people.

Tongde Hall / ZSZY Studio

Yu Xin Li — Tue, 16 Mar 2021 23:00:00 +0000

Longji Village is one of the volcanic stone villages in the north of Hainan. Located along the hill, Tongde Hall and Jiangxing Ancestral Hall were built in the Ming and Qing Dynasties in the form of Shiheyuan, featuring the lifting beam structure of timber and volcanic stone. The plaque on the front gate of Tongde Hall was inscribed by Zhang Yuesong, the advanced scholar called ”Jinshi” in the Qing Dynasty.