Sandra Day O'Connor United States Courthouse
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The Sandra Day O'Connor United States Courthouse is a courthouse at 401 West Washington Street in Phoenix, Arizona. Pursuant to Template:USPL, enacted by the United States Congress, it is named after Sandra Day O'Connor, who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from September 21, 1981, to January 31, 2006.
Description
The building is home to the United States District Court for the District of Arizona, and also hosts Circuit Judges William C. Canby Jr.; Michael Daly Hawkins; Mary H. Murguia; Mary M. Schroeder; Andrew D. Hurwitz; Barry G. Silverman; Bridget S. Bade and Roopali Desai of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Built at a cost of $123 million<ref name="nyt-august 2012"/> and dedicated in October 2000, the building was championed by Senior United States District Judge Robert C. Broomfield. It was designed by architect Richard Meier,<ref name="nyt-august 2012">Santos, Fernanda (August 4, 2012). "Where Indoors Can Become Too Much Like Outdoors". The New York Times (via the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette). Retrieved August 6, 2012.</ref> with local executive architects of Langdon Wilson Architecture in Phoenix. The building is in Meier's signature monochrome style. Standing six stories tall, it encompasses more than Template:Convert. The building's public atrium features a six-story glass curtain wall on the north face, and contains a drum-shaped special-proceedings courtroom with a glass-lensTemplate:Clarify ceiling, the work of James Carpenter, an American light artist and designer. There is no public parking.
Climate-control problems
Although part of the General Services Administration's initiative to bring design excellence to public buildings, the building has been plagued with climate-control problems with its evaporative-cooling system. Temperatures in the atrium have been known to reach Template:Convert in the summer, and the ceiling was open to dust storms, but now motorized louvers prevent infiltration during storms. Template:Wide image
See also
References
- Meier, R. & Frampton, K. & Rykwert, J. & Holl, S. (2004). Richard Meier Architect. New York City: Rizzoli International Publications, Inc. Page 174. Template:ISBN.