Civic Building
Premises housing a public authority and the public's dealings with it - town hall, courthouse, register office - where addressing the street as a public institution is part of the brief.
Also called town hall, courthouse.
How it connects
Civic Building typically holds Council Chamber, Courtroom and Public Service Counter.
In other taxonomies
- courthousesGetty AAT, 300005969theirs is narrower
- town hallsGetty AAT, 300006063theirs is narrower
- Secular representative entitiesUniclass, En_20_20nearly the same
For developersRecord, identifiers and graph
Where it sits
One rule per term beside it, taller for each narrower term
Civic Building
30 terms, House to Station
Record
- Also called
- town hall · courthouse
- Seen in the wild
- Civic & government · Community center · Municipal
- Provenance
- evidencedSUBTYPE_RULES in an architecture-projects platform (src-01), read 21 Aug 2026
For machines
Permanent address
/id/typology/civic-buildingKnowledge graph
Stored incoming and outgoing relations from the public V1 graph. Ancestors, descendants, and siblings are labelled as derived views rather than stored facts.
- has-conceptTypologyincoming
- has-conceptTypologyincoming
- typically-inCouncil Chamberincoming
- typically-inCourtroomincoming
- typically-inPublic Service Counterincoming
- belongs-to-axisTypologyoutgoing
- belongs-to-facetTypologyoutgoing
- typically-containsCouncil Chamberoutgoing
- typically-containsCourtroomoutgoing
- typically-containsPublic Service Counteroutgoing
Crosswalks
| Scheme | Identifier | Their label, or the search | How close |
|---|---|---|---|
| Getty AAT | 300005969 | courthouses | theirs is narrower |
| Getty AAT | 300006063 | town halls | theirs is narrower |
| Uniclass | En_20_20 | Secular representative entities | nearly the same |