Desert Living Tip #80: Invert Your Pyramid
Tempe, Arizona's Upside-Down City Hall. The pyramid is 3 stories tall containing 17,650 square feet of municipal offices, including offices for the Mayor, City Council, and City Manager on the third floor. The 45º slope of the walls results in the floors on that level to measure 100 feet on each side, but the ceiling to measure 126 feet on each side.
Other inverted pyramids are The Pier, St. Petersburg, Florida and the Canadian Pavilion at the 1967 World's Fair in Montreal, Canada. Do you know of any others?
Tags: shapes, design, architecture
posted by Ward at 7:38 AM
3 Comments:
The one on Central Ave in Phoenix, south of Indian School.
Thanks Ben, I need to do a drive by...is that one a bank building?
There is another upside down pyramid building in Bratislava, Slovakia. It houses "Slovak Radio" ("Slovensky rozhlas")
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