Innsbruck Town Hall

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Innsbruck Town Hall is the city government building in Innsbruck, Austria. The first town hall in Tyrol, called Altes Rathaus, was built in 1358. In 1897 the city moved to a new building, a former hotel donated to the city by the wholesaler Leonhard Lang. After the Neues Rathaus was badly damaged in World War II, it was rebuilt in 1947–48. In 1996 an international design competition chose Dominique Perrault to design a new town hall complex. Finished in 2002, the complex also has a restaurant, a hotel and a shopping arcade called Rathausgallerien. It was built as a public–private partnership: the city provided the land, while a private group restored the old town hall and built the new buildings, including 6,000 square metres of office space for the city administration.