Chandler City Hall, 2010
- Chandler Museum
City Hall on Arizona Avenue with evening lighting on Turbulent Shade
Chandler City Hall is in Downtown Chandler on the east side of Arizona Avenue and approximately 1/2-mile south of Chandler Boulevard. Opened in 2010, the municipal complex offers convenient access to the most used City services and plentiful free parking. The complex consists of a six-story office tower and several adjacent buildings, including the City Council Chambers, Vision Gallery, Neighborhood Resources offices, and a public parking garage. The complex includes facilities on the north and south sides of Chicago Street.
One of the public art pieces in the City Hall complex also serves an important function, acting as a natural light filter for the office windows. The artwork Turbulent Shade created by artist Ned Kahn incorporates approximately 1,000 perforated stainless steel panels (6-by-21-inch) that are suspended on rods across the entire western facade of the building. The artwork reflects light, moves with natural wind currents, and is lit from above and below with low energy use LED lighting that provides colorful illumination to the building. The eastern façade also includes the same art over a smaller area. The artwork was purchased through the City's one percent for art ordinance, which allocates 1% of project construction dollars of new buildings and parks to the Municipal Arts Fund.