Born Again: A New Skin Offers a Fresh Start.

The article reports that City Hall houses of Richmond, Virginia, is home to more than 800 employees. The building had served the community well for 27 years, but in the mid-1990s, the city discovered that the facade was losing its structural integrity at a steady and alarming rate. In 1997, Richmond commissioned a team of consultants led by Fred Ortiz, AIA, of Scribner, Messer, Brady & Wade Architects of Richmond, and Daniel Lemieux, AIA, of Wiss Janney Elstner, of Fairfax, Virginia, to identify the extent of damage and devise a plan to revive the building and the city hall's image as expressed in its architecture.