San Jose City Hall

San José City Hall
General information
Status	Completed
Type	Government offices
Architectural style	Postmodern
Address	200 East Santa Clara Street
Town or city	San Jose, California
Country	United States
Coordinates	37°20′16″N 121°53′10″W / 37.3378°N 121.8861°W / 37.3378; -121.8861
Current tenants	City of San José U.S. Patent & Trademark Office
Groundbreaking	2002; 22 years ago (2002)
Opened	October 15, 2005; 19 years ago (2005-10-15)
Cost	$384 million[2]
Height
Roof	86.9 m (285 ft)[1]
Technical details
Floor count	18 2 below ground
Floor area	49,240 m2 (530,000 sq ft)
Lifts/elevators	11
Design and construction
Architect(s)	Richard Meier & Partners Architect Steinberg Architects
Engineer	Englekirk & Sabol[3]
Main contractor	Devcon Construction Turner Construction
References
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San José City Hall is the seat of the municipal government of San Jose, California. Located in Downtown San Jose, it was designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Richard Meier in a Postmodern style. It consists of an 18-story tower, an iconic glass rotunda, and a city council chamber wing, laid out within a two-block-long public square known as San José Civic Plaza. The tower rises 285 feet (87 m) above the plaza, making it the fourth tallest building in San Jose.

San Jose has had six seats of government in its history. City officials met in Downtown San Jose from before the city's incorporation in 1850 until the 1950s, when a modern City Hall was built at Civic Center to the north. The current City Hall's construction capped a period of rapid growth for the city during the dot-com bubble. Its opening in 2005 marked the municipal government's return downtown after half a century in an office park setting.