When a community has outgrown spaces that are decades old and wants to centralize all city employees, it’s nice that the design enhances the available site, but that it also captures the small town ethos on the Gulf coast. Dunedin’s new city hall wave design fits the topography, the community and the crowning glory, of course, is stunning public art. Heath Satow’s ‘The See’ sleek contemporary interpretation of a water droplet, rises gloriously from the ground, reflecting all citizens who come and go, and reminding us that “individually we are one drop, together we are an ocean.” (R.Satoro). Inside, Mr. Still’s enormous 65-foot reproduction of his original painting captures sunset across St. Joseph Sound and reinforces “with the incoming tide, all boats will rise.” Dunedin walks the walk. dunedinfl.net
This article appears in Best of The Bay 2023.
