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80 City of Sunny Isles Beach New Facility Qualifications for Architectural Design Services <br />Cape Coral’s new Government Precinct <br />is a 20 acre site bisected by the new <br />Cultural Boulevard; the first Civic Build- <br />ing is the Cape Coral City Hall. The <br />project contains 91,000 square feet <br />and places the new linear, two-story <br />building running the north-south length <br />of the site. Disposed in front of this <br />Administration Building, the Council <br />Chamber and offices provide a strong <br />and mostly solid architectural mass <br />contrasted with the glass façade of the <br />adjacent administration building. <br />As a relatively new and expanding com- <br />munity in Southwest Florida, the City <br />was in search of a civic identity; the <br />City, in search of identity and brand <br />helped drive the design team to create <br />a contemporary facility that remained <br />rooted in the context of the community. <br />The site program for the New City Hall <br />created a landscaped, green park for <br />community open space, as well as for <br />future City development. The building <br />program consists of a 250-seat Council <br />chamber, Mayor’s office, City Clerk, <br />City Attorney and City Manager offices, <br />Community Development and a one- <br />stop shopping concept for all building, <br />zoning and permitting functions. <br />Transparency of the architecture is <br />directly linked to the transparency of <br />the government process and the ad- <br />ministration building façade expresses <br />the openness of that process in an <br />expansive curtainwall design which is <br />articulated in both color and pattern <br />creating an expensive stage set for the <br />Council Chamber in front. <br />The project received the AIA State of <br />Florida Award for Excellence in Archi- <br />tecture. <br />*Personal experience of Lawrence Kline, <br />Project Designer while at AECOM (Spillis <br />Candela & Partners). <br />CLIENT <br />City of Cape Coral <br />1015 Cultural Park Blvd <br />Cape Coral, Fl 33990 <br />t. 239.574.0401 <br />LOCATION Cape Coral, Florida <br />COMPLETION DATE 2001 <br />CONSTRUCTION COST $9 million <br />SIZE 91,000 square feet <br />AWARDS <br />Award of Excellence, AIA Miami, 2001 <br />Unbuilt Design Award, AIA Florida, 1999 <br />CITY OF CAPE CORALCAPE CORAL CITY HALL