Sunnyvale’s New City Hall

• Is the first city hall in the country designed to be LEED Platinum certified and Net Zero Energy
• Improves access to and delivery of City services
• Is designed to be an active gathering place and resource for the community
• Serves as a model for sustainability and lessens our impact on the environment 
• Iconifies Sunnyvale as the Heart of Silicon Valley^SM

First Floor

What’s here?  Public reception area, NOVAworks Job Center, Council Chambers and meeting rooms

Public art – Liz Hickok, The Metamorphosis and Memory of Flowers
This altered pigment print of flowers has an augmented reality feature. 
Use the QR Code and Instagram on your phone to see the flowers come to life.

Fun Facts

• The building’s natural materials, design and floating central staircase are intended to feel like being in a treehouse. The nature theme carries throughout the building. It is also surrounded by native landscaping and walking trails.
• Over 1,600 solar panels on the roof will help generate as much energy as the building uses (Net Zero Energy).
  • The panels will generate over a million kilowatt-hours of power annually. This could power about 103 homes for a year.
  • Many of the panels are bifacial. They absorb sunlight from both the top and reflected light from the underside.
  • A battery (microgrid) stores power from the solar panels for emergency use and a back-up generator is installed on the south side of the building.

Points of Interest

• Council Chambers:  Holds about 200 people which is double the capacity of the old Chambers. It also has built-in support for the public to participate remotely.
• Meeting Rooms:  These will be reservable for public use in the near future.
• Nature Theme:  The open triangles in the ceiling mimic the pattern of light filtering through the leaves of a tree. Triangles appear elsewhere such as in the tilework behind the reception desks and the glass in the entry awning.

Go to:

• Second Floor
• Third Floor 
• Fourth Floor