Rio Rancho City Hall
Rio Rancho City Hall
Rio Rancho, New Mexico
- Associated General Contractors Best Buildings of 2008 Award, $10M - $20M Project
- NAIOP Award of Merit 2007, Civic/Public Project
A cornerstone to a new City Center for the City of Rio Rancho, the new City Hall consolidates several existing facilities into a single new 58,000 square foot state-of-the-art city complex. The facility will share parking, site amenities and infrastructure with a new arena and retail/office development. The project bid in 2007 and, despite a volatile construction market, was delivered on budget.
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Building amenities include a patina-surfaced metal façade and energy-efficient glass atrium and lobby. Naturalistic components include large boulders that lead visitors from the street curb through the lobby to the rear parking lot. The new city council chamber opens onto a new plaza and reflecting pool shared by adjacent mixed-use development.
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Other goals included:
- A location for: Community Involvement – the “Center of Town”
- Enhancing the image of: “The Best Self-Sustaining City in New Mexico”
- Contribution to: a “Sense of Place” for the City Center
- Design toward: Pedestrian Flow instead of Vehicular Traffic
- Maintaining: a Budget Established 14 Months Prior to Bidding
