Fargo City Hall committee likes ‘swoosh’ design for new facility

City Hall concept design with 'swoosh'

Members of committee tasked with picking a design for the new Fargo City Hall appeared to favor a design element in one of the options presented Wednesday that would include a concave semi-circle mirroring the convex circular edge of the adjacent Civic Center. Committee members dubbed this design the "swoosh."

One of the options for a new Fargo City Hall has a two-story commission chamber as a separate building to the east of the Civic Center. Adjacent to the east of the chambers would be a three-story office space that would run along the edge of Second Street.

One of the Fargo City Hall options had two towers - a four-story office space on the western edge and a two-story office space on the eastern edge along Second street, with a wishbone-shaped atrium sandwiched in between.

FARGO Swoosh, there it is.

Architects presented three City Hall concepts to the committee tasked with picking a design for the new government building on Wednesday morning. All of the drawings had a skyway connection to the Fargo Civic Center and large, glass atrium spaces for the public.

But what the committee seemed to like most was a design element from the third option a concave semi-circle that would mirror the convex circular edge of the Civic. The committee dubbed this design the swoosh, and itll likely appear in more conceptual drawings as the committee hones in on a final design, architect Terry Stroh said.

The committee made up largely of city staff and two residents did not pick a final design Wednesday. It only looked at three concepts and listed pros and cons of each.

All three designs have the roughly 75,000-square-foot building sitting in the northern half of the Civic Center parking lot, a decision the committee made earlier this month.

The group will meet again in two weeks, when the architects will present more options using feedback from Wednesday.

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Fargo City Hall committee likes 'swoosh' design for new facility