A new city hall and police facility, in a reimagined civic campus.
The City of Lake Oswego Police Department, 911 Dispatch, and City Hall needed a new building to better serve the community. The City hired the design team to develop a concept and design a building that would meet their current and future needs.
The project is located on a challenging site, which slopes nearly 26 feet from the northwest corner to the southeast corner of the building. The design solution nestled the building into the hill, allowing natural protection for the highly secure police areas. This also allowed the entirety of the City Hall functions to be located above grade, and allowed for plentiful daylight access to the less secure police functions in the southeast corner.
DESIGN DRIVERS
Taken as a whole, the new city hall is an expression of the community, and a long-term investment in civic culture.
“We valued our collaborative working relationship with the Mackenzie team on the Lake Oswego City Hall project. They are skilled, cost-conscience designers and proactively worked with the Howard S. Wright team to identify cost control strategies for the project. Mackenzie is knowledgeable about project delivery methods, and were very adept at leveraging the benefits of having HSW as a CMGC partner. I would highly recommend Mackenzie.”
“I appreciate the thorough and thoughtful collaboration that Mackenzie brought to the project. Lake Oswego City Hall was a complex facility to design and build, with lots of different stakeholders and a four-year project schedule, and Mackenzie’s responsiveness was paramount its success.”
Exterior Animation
Building organization
The building contains multiple city functions, all with their own unique sets of requirements. The building has a public three-story lobby that stiches together the public interfaces for the police department, building department, administration, and court. The north side of the third floor houses the Council Chambers, which is transformed into a court room on Wednesdays and an emergency operations center in the event of an emergency. The north elevator provides a secure path to escort detainees from the sally port in the basement to the court room, through a secure vestibule.
