The 50,200-square-foot Santa Monica City Hall East — a modern extension to the existing iconic and historic Art Deco-style City Hall — will be a one-stop-hub for the entire community to do business with the city while dramatically reducing off-site leasing costs for office space. Most notably, it aspires to be the greenest municipal building in the world.
The city leaders and project team behind this new civic resource have worked to achieve certification from the Living Building Challenge – one of the world’s most stringent green building rating systems. Conferred through the International Living Future Institute (ILFI), this certification requires that buildings must achieve net-zero energy and water — meaning the buildings produce as much as they consume — in addition to other environmental criteria.
Designed as an adaptable, supportive workplace, the City Services Building offers state-of-the-art work environments, including efficient office areas and collaboration zones. Passive design techniques …