Brooklyn's city hall was renamed "Borough Hall" in a preliminary act of New York superiority. The real offense came later. The nineteenth-century city hall buildings were too small for modern bureaucracy and office buildings were built, first in Manhattan and then in Brooklyn.
Manhattan's Municipal Building, completed in 1915:
Brooklyn's Municipal Building, completed in 1924:
M to B: You get one just like ours, only smaller!
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Uh...sure. Wait for my part 2...
well, since it is a similar building, for a similar use, built at a similar time, and likely conforming to the same setback regulations, and I wouldn't be surprised if the architect is the same, why wouldn't they look similar?
Instructions to the architect: "make it look just like Manhattan's"
Milwaukee's City Hall, recently restored to the tune of a cool 70 mil:
http://brewcitynewbie.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/milwaukee-cityhall_mr.jpg
Instructions to the architect: "make it look just like Manhattan's"
But smaller, and weaker... MUHUHUHAHAHA!!
and I wouldn't be surprised if the architect is the same
Different architects, different administrations, different budgets...
you didn't know the right zombies.
plus, I believe the architects needed to have subcontractors who wouldn't fall off the building. And, there was a height limitation.
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