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Along the Thames, Foster and Partners puts a new twist on government and gives green a different shape with the highly accessible LONDON CITY HALL S T C E J O R P Occupying a prominent optimizing interior day- site undergoing rede- lighting and shading. velopment near the The public courtyard London and Tower and extensive glazing bridges, the shape of are meant to express a City Hall recalls a river- spirit of openness in smoothed stone. Its the government agen- form was derived by cies and legislators. On the building’s south side (this page), the facade is stepped in from top to bottom so that lower floors are shaded by those above them. Boats glide past City Hall on the Thames River (opposite, top). Seen by day and at night (opposite, middle and bottom), City Hall is a daring form that belies the blandness common to many pub- lic buildings. By Jayne Merkel f ever a building announced to the world that a new day had dawned, Foster and Partners’ new London City Hall does so with a Iclarity not seen in a city building in this country for quite some time. The big, shiny, steel-and-glass egg looks as if the dome of Berlin’s Reichstag (which Foster also designed) had spun off, gathered steam, and landed on the banks of the Thames with such force that its tip was buried in the earth. On closer examination, the Greater London Authority (GLA), as the building is also known, is even stranger—curved inward toward the top on one side, stepped out and upward on the other, a bit flat-topped from some perspectives, pointed like the back of a cat’s ear from others. Its shape was devised to minimize the surface area exposed to direct sun- light while still admi