In the late 1990s, just as Bohlin and his partners were becoming concerned about being typecast as “very good wood-and-stone architects,” BCJ won two public commissions in Seattle. Light-filled, flexible work areas will be built from a standard kit of parts, and cantilevered decks along the east facade, overlooking the community and its shoreline, will provide additional outdoor meeting space. The designers situated the chamber and interior public space near City Hall’s main entry. The council chamber will ""fly"" a shimmering fabric ""sail,"" created by a scrim of Teflon-coated mesh over a steel frame. City Hall’s overhanging roof, patterned like ocean swells, screens north-facing clerestories that will bring diffused daylight into each two-level bay.
To create the new park, the team restructured the narrow 17-acre site, restoring wetlands. The project consists of a new City Hall and a parking structure screened by a plant-covered wall, an expanded library, and a public park.
BCJ partnered with Arup and Peter Walker and Partners in this competition-winning design for a building and landscape symbolizing the community of Newport Beach.
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