top 5 civic centers in the world

1. •A civic center or civic centre is a prominent land area within a community that is
constructed to be its focal point or center.
•It usually contains one or more dominant public buildings, which may also include a
government building.
•Recently, the term "civic center" has been used in reference to an entire central
business district of a community or a major shopping center in the middle of a
community.
•In this type of civic center, special attention is paid to the way public structures are
grouped and landscaped.
•In some American cities, a multi-purpose arena is named "Civic Center", for example
Columbus Civic Center. Such "Civic Centers" combine venues for sporting events,
theaters, concerts and similar events.
•In Australia Civic Centre is used as a brand of Shopping Center.
British:
The area in the center of a town where municipal offices and other public buildings
are situated.
English:
A large public building or complex for meetings, sports, and entertainments.
CIVIC CENTER

3. • San Francisco’s Civic Center is located in the heart of the city, and contains many of San
Francisco’s largest government and cultural organizations. Many of the buildings are
built in the classical architecture style, giving the plaza a regal look and feel.
• Civic Center—begun in 1913 and heavily influenced by the-City Beautiful movement.
• Civic Center Plaza contains a vast amount of the city’s history, designating it a National
Historic Landmark. The large, open plaza is a peaceful center for busy commuters and
workers during the week and is a cultural hub during the weekends.
• It also sits atop an underground parking garage and has both a BART and MUNI
underground station located nearby.
• Location - Roughly
bounded by Golden Gate
Ave., 7th, Franklin, Hayes,
and Market Sts., San
Francisco, California
• Area - 45.6 acres (18.5 ha)
• Built - 1912
• Architectural style - Late
19th and 20th
Century revivals
Beaux-Arts
CIVIC CENTER, SAN FRANCISCO
1. San Francisco War Memorial and
Performing Arts Center
2. War Memorial Opera House
3. Veterans Building
4. Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall
5. Bill Graham Civic Auditorium
6. Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
7. San Francisco Public Library
8. Pioneer Monument

4. • "Culture vultures" flock here at night to see performances of the San Francisco opera,
symphony, and ballet, as well as to attend theater, galas, concerts, plays, and special events.
• During the day you can get your "culture fix" by visiting one of the many excellent museums
and galleries such as the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco Performing Arts Library and
Museum, and the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery. There are also several other
smaller private galleries in the area.
• Now City Hall is surrounded by large plazas and classic architecture. Notable buildings
include the Asian Art Museum, Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, Davies Symphony Hall, San
Francisco Public Library, War Memorial Opera House and Veterans Building.
• The Civic Center is on Van Ness Ave, north of its
intersection with Market St. The city began developing
the area in 1913, and most of the buildings there are of
a "Classical Style", with their development being
heavily influenced by the "City Beautiful Movement".
• Most of the city's integral governmental institutions
are located here; like City Hall which dominates the
Civic Center with it's impressive "Beaux-Arts" style
dome.
• There are two main plazas in the area; Civic Center
Plaza and United Nations Plaza. The Civic Center Plaza
(in front of City Hall) has been a popular place for
holding rallies, protests, and festivals. As well as being a
hub for city government, the area is also a serious
cultural center.

5. San Francisco War Memorial
and Performing Arts Center
City Hall
San Francisco Public Library
War Memorial Opera House
Asian Art Museum of San
Francisco
Bill Graham Civic Auditorium
Louise M. Davies Symphony
Hall
Pioneer Monument

6. Educational institutions:
Civic Center has three Universities located there; the University of California, Hastings College
of the Law, the private The Art Institute of California – San Francisco and The San Francisco
Conservatory of Music
Project Background:
Located in the heart of San Francisco, the Civic Center District is a superb ensemble of Beaux
Arts civic architecture that is designated as a National Historic Landmark District. In
September 2008, the Civic Center District was designated as a “Sustainable Resource District”,
promoting it as a future model for sustainability and cutting-edge environmental
technologies.
Since this designation, the SFPUC (San Francisco public utilities commission) has implemented
energy efficiency retrofits and replaced over 500 old plumbing fixtures with ultra-low flow
fixtures in several buildings in the district. The SFPUC is also funding the installation of solar
panels at City Hall and Davies Symphony Hall.
The SFPUC’s Sustainable Civic Center Plan, partially funded by a grant from the EPA, builds on
this vision.
Through the use of a highly collaborative and interactive process, the SFPUC will develop a
plan to guide physical changes that could help to transform the district into a vital, active
district that reduces its impact on the natural environment by reducing water and energy
consumption. The Plan will provide a framework and specific design guidelines to achieve
quantifiable and measurable environmental goals.

8. Projects developed by the plan will:
• Reduce water use and increase water efficiency;
• Manage storm water using green infrastructure;
• Reduce energy use and generate renewable energy;
• Transform the neighborhood into a vibrant, active, safe area for the public to enjoy;
• Incorporate community gathering spaces while honoring the historic context of a National
Resource Historic District;
• Educate the public about sustainability; and
• Create public assets for future generations.

10. • Civic Arena (formerly the Civic
Auditorium and Mellon Arena, nicknamed The
Igloo) was an arena located in downtown
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
• The Civic Arena primarily served as the home to
the Pittsburgh Penguins, the city's National
Hockey League (NHL) franchise, from 1967 to
2010.
• It was the first retractable roof major-sports
venue in the world, covering 170,000 sq. feet,
constructed with nearly 3,000 tons of Pittsburgh
steel and supported solely by a massive 260-foot-
long cantilevered arm on the exterior.
• Even though it was designed and engineered as a
retractable-roof dome, the operating cost and
repairs to the hydraulic jacks halted all full
retractions after 1995, and the roof stayed
permanently closed after 2001.
• The first roof opening was during a July 4,
1962 Carol Burnett show to which she exclaimed
"Ladies and Gentlemen...I present the sky!"
• Broke ground – March 12,1958
• Built – 1958-1961
• Opened – September 17, 1961
• Renovated – 1986($19.5 million)
• Closed - June 26, 2010
• Demolished - September 26, 2011 –
March 31, 2012
• Construction cost - $22 million
($175 million in 2015 dollars)
• Architect - Mitchell & Ritchey
Architects
• Structural engineer - Ammann &
Whitney
PITTS BURG CIVIC CENTER:

11. The arena’s signature retractable stainless steel dome – 417 feet in
diameter and 109 feet tall- was constructed with eight 300-ton roof
sections. Six of the sections were mobilized by five motors in each
panel. The roof could be retracted to open the dome in two minutes.
The architectural marvel – a dome without interior supports – was
possible because of a 260-foot cantilever arm that supported the six
moveable sections of roof.
The World’s Biggest Dome…And It Moves!

15. • Civic Center (also known as the Health
District) is a neighborhood in the city
of Miami, Florida USA. Civic Center is bound
roughly by Northwest 20th Street and 14th
Avenue to the northwest, the Dolphin
Expressway and the Miami River to the south
and west, and the Midtown Interchange and I-
95 to the east.
• Civic Center has the country's largest
concentration of medical and research
facilities after Houston. The neighborhood is
composed primarily of hospitals, research
institutes, clinics and government offices, and
is the center of Miami's growing
biotechnology and medical research industry.
MIAMI CIVIC CENTER:
• Civic Center is the home of the University of Miami (UM) Leonard M. Miller
School of Medicine and the UM Life Science and Technology Park. Civic
Center is approximately five minutes north of Downtown Miami via rapid
transit on the Miami Metrorail.

16. Hospital zone CIVIC CENTER

17. Parking area
Civic center

19. VARIOUS BUILDING AROUND THE AREA:
• Bascom Palmer Eye Institute
• UM Cytogenetic Lab
• University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine
• Miami Dade College Medical Campus
• Batchelor Children's Research Institute
• Braman Family Breast Cancer Institute
• Center on Aging
• Diabetes Research Institute
• Dr John T MacDonald Foundation Department of Human Genetics
• Florida International University Wertheim College of Medicine
• Gordon Center for Research in Medical Education
• UM Interdisciplinary Stem Cell Institute
• Mailman Center for Child Development
• Miami Institute for Human Genomics
• Miami Project to Cure Paralysis
• Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center
• Vascular Biology Institute
• William Lehman Injury Research Institute

20. TALLAHASSEE CIVIC CENTER:
• The Donald L. Tucker Civic Center (DLTCC) (originally known as the Tallahassee-Leon
County Civic Center) is a multi-purpose arena in Tallahassee, Florida, United States,
located on the grounds of Florida State University. The arena has the biggest capacity of
any arena in the Florida Panhandle. The arena opened in 1981 and was built at a cost of
$33.8 million, financed by the city.
• The arena was named the Donald L. Tucker Civic Center in 1977 in honor of Donald L.
Tucker, Esq., a former Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives and
Special Ambassador for the United States to the Dominican Republic.

21. • Year Built - 1981
• Cost - $33
• Owner - Tallahassee-Leon County
• Civic Center Authority
• Type - Indoor
• Architect - Barrett, Daffin and Carlan
• Suites - Yes
• Elevator - No
• Surface - TypeHardwood
• Standard Capacity - 12100

22. The TD Place Arena (originally the Ottawa Civic Centre) is an indoor arena located
in Ottawa, Ontario, seating 9,500. With temporary seating and standing room it can hold
10,585
OTTAWA CIVIC CENTER:

23. • Broke ground - 1966
• Opened - December 29,
1967
• Renovated - 1992, 2005,
2012-2014
• Construction cost - C$9.5
million ($64.6 million in 2015
dollars)
• Architect - Craig and Kohler
• Capacity - 9,500 (standard)
10,585 (temporary)

24. • Amarillo offers tons of entertainment options such as live music performances by touring
bands, art showings, plays, museums, sporting events, festivals at number of venues year
round.
• Among these venues is a top notch multi-purpose convention center known as the
Amarillo Civic Center.
• With one coliseum, two auditoriums and numerous roomy exhibit halls, the venue is an
excellent place for holding conventions, meetings, musical concerts and other sorts of
special events.
AMARILLO CIVIC CENTER:
• The Cal Farley Coliseum in the
Civic Center is home to the Ice
hockey team of the Central
Hockey League called Amarillo
Gorillas.
• It has a seating capacity of 4,987
and can also be used for other
events like concerts, trade
shows, banquets etc. the
auditorium has 2,324 seats and
is basically a proscenium theater.
It has state of the art sound
system that includes an Electro
Voice sound system

25. Hockey club Public Library Civic center
District court auditorium City hall Hospital district

26. How big should it be?
Current exhibit space: 68,456 square feet
Recommended exhibit space: Up to 100,000 square feet
Current meeting space: 51,905 square feet
Recommended meeting space: Minimum 50,000 square feet
Current coliseum: 4,870 seats
Recommended coliseum: 5,500 to 7,500 seats with 200 to 300 premium seats
Current auditorium: 2,324 square feet
Recommended auditorium: Current auditorium is adequate.