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AKA: Beverly Hills Civic Center, Beverly Hills, CA
Structure Type: built works - public buildings - city halls
Designers: Austin, John C.W. Architect (firm); Campbell and Campbell, Landscape Architects (firm); Gehry, Frank O. and Associates, Incorporated (firm); Koerner and Gage, Architect (firm); Meyer, Frederick M. Architect (firm); Safdie, Moshe and Associates (firm); Urban Innovations Group (UIG) (firm); John Corneby Wilson Austin (architect); William John Gage (architect); Frank Owen Gehry (architect); Henry G. Koerner (architect); Frederick M. Meyer (architect); Charles Willard Moore (architect); Moshe Safdie (architect)
Dates: constructed 1932
William J. Gage designed the Beverly Hills City Hall, creating a composition of a tower surrounded by lower wings housing offices. Office towers, usually associated with business skyscrapers, became common for use in city halls of the 1920s-1930s, as demonstrated in Downtown Los Angeles (1926-1928) and Van Nuys (1932-1933).
In 1981, the City of Beverly Hills sponsored a much-publicized competition for the renovation and enlargement of its City Hall complex; six firms competed for the $110 million renovation, including Moshe Safdie and Associates, Arthur Erickson Architects, Gwathmey Siegel and Associates, Frank O. Gehry and Associates, and the ultimate victor, Charles Moore/Urban Innovations Group, a design firm based at the UCLA, School of Architecture and Urban Planning; this renovation work carried on from 1981-1992. Urban Innovations teamed with A.C. Martin and Associates. Campbell and Campbell worked on the project as its landscape architect.
PCAD id: 1002
