AKA: Fresno City Hall #4, Fresno, CA
Structure Type: built works - public buildings - city halls
Designers: Erickson, Arthur, Associates (firm); Arthur Charles Erickson (architect)
Dates: constructed 1989-1991
5 stories, total floor area: 300,000 sq. ft.
Building History
Vancouver, BC., architect Arthur Erickson (1924-2009) designed this remarkable $28 million city government administration building that superceded the celebrated city hall designed by Franklin and Kump (1939).
Building Notes
L. Williams Zahner said of the Fresno City Hall #4: “The Fresno City Hall, designed by Arthur Anderson [sic] and Associates with Lew and Patnaude Architects, has a massive dull-finished (#2D) stainless steel roof and interior panels and staircase of stainless steel.” (See L. William Zahner, Architectural Metals: A Guide to Selection, Specification, and Performance, [New York: John Wiley and Sons, Incorporated, 1995], p. 198.) Zahner miswrote Arthur Erickson's name as "Anderson."
PCAD id: 6523