2024-12-23T21:20:41-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/1447184/hadid-design-for-project-in-elk-grove-calif-draws-critics Paul Petrunia 2011-04-01T20:11:37-04:00 >2018-01-30T06:16:04-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/e8/e88506e962f5f6f88e7edf91f388901f?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>But one of the firm&rsquo;s smaller clients, the city of Elk Grove, population 153,000, recently conjured far different kinds of aquatic life when members of the City Council and the public chose words like &ldquo;squid,&rdquo; &ldquo;octopus&rdquo; and &ldquo;starfish&rdquo; to describe the latest renderings for a proposed civic center.</p></em><br /><br /><br>