Dallas City Hall ( Dallas City Hall ) - the city hall of Dallas , Texas , USA, designed by architect Pei Jo Min in 1978. Located in the government district of . The current building was the fifth city hall in the history of the city after City Hall , built in the Bozar style in 1914.
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 | When you do a city hall, it has to convey an image of the people, and this had to represent the people of Dallas ... The people I met - rich and poor, powerful and not so powerful - were all very proud of their city. They felt that Dallas was the greatest city there was, and I could not disappoint them. (eng.) | When you create a town hall, you must convey a human image in it, so this city hall must correspond to the inhabitants of Dallas ... Then I met the rich and the poor, powerful and not very - they were all proud of their city. They felt that Dallas was the greatest city, and I could not disappoint them. (Russian) |  | |
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The modernist form of Pei's inverted pyramid was the result of government demands. It was necessary that more space was allocated for government premises than for public premises, so the area of each subsequent floor is larger than the previous one, and the walls are inclined at an angle of 34 °.
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- ↑ 1 2 archINFORM - 1994.
- ↑ Dallas City Hall by IM Pei . www.galinsky.com. Circulation date May 30, 2019.