Long Beach Civic Center Master Plan
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Long Beach Civic Center Master Plan, California
Dec 22, 2020
Long Beach Civic Center Master Plan
Design: SOM
Location: Long Beach, California, USA
Billie Jean King Main Library
The Long Beach Civic Center Master Plan revitalizes 22 acres of downtown Long Beach by creating a new, vibrant mixed-use district that includes a 270,000-square-foot City Hall, 93,500-square-foot Main Library, 232,000-square-foot Port Headquarters, and the reactivation of historic Lincoln Park. The undertaking also develops design guidelines for 800 residential units and 50,000 square feet of commercial development and reintroduces the city grid with the regional bike network, buses, and the Metro Blue Line.
Billie Jean King Main Library
The Long Beach City Hall and Port Headquarters buildings are the defining elements of the Long Beach Civic Center Master Plan. Identical in mass and proportion, the City Hall and Port Headquarters buildings are designed with long, narrow floors and split cores that link interior spaces, create large open office plans, and visually connect the interiors to the outdoors.
Billie Jean King Main Library
The elliptical-shaped council chambers, shared by the city council and port commissioners and located in City Hall, prominently anchor the west end of the Civic Center plaza. The chambers are clad in clear vision glass to symbolize civic transparency and public access...
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