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What in the world were they thinking when they built the Fresno City Hall? According to Wikipedia Fresno’s “downtown was one of the last remaining examples of untouched architecture in California...” So here you have a city with all these older buildings, some of them, like St. John’s Cathedral (2 blocks away) are over a hundred years old, and right smack in the middle of them they build an ultra-modern city hall: a perfect illustration of feng shui gone terribly wrong.

For those of you not familiar with Fresno - here is photo of the city skyline (courtesy wikipedia)

My kids have dubbed city hall “Darth Vader’s Hat”. Perhaps in the normal course of events the rest of downtown Fresno will start start looking like alien landing zone over the next 100 years.

How in the world did they ever get approval to build this thing?

Fresno City Hall - west side

Fresno City Hall - east side

There is a night shot of the building on the architect’s website which shows it all lit up with the fountain running.  Speaking of the fountain - and by the way - that’s the fountain in the first picture, only there isn’t any water in it

When I stood in front of the bone dry fountain I felt a huge disparity between the building’s ultra-modern, high-dollar aura and a fountain that appears to be broken. It makes me wonder if I drive by at night, are half the lights burnt out? I don’t know why the fountain isn’t running but I get a “Third World” feeling when I see things that don’t operate as intended. (If you know why the fountain isnt running - feel free to drop a comment). I hope they fix, and fix it soon!

© Randy “Lazarus” McAtee
Owner/Broker: Lazarus Realty

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