Alaska State Capitol Building

The Alaska State Capitol is located in the state capital of Juneau at the corner of East 4th Street and Main Street. It houses the Alaska Legislature and the offices for the governor of Alaska and lieutenant governor of Alaska.  A competition was sponsored by the Juneau Capitol Planning Commission in 2004 to design a replacement building, but after controversy about the unconventional nature of many of the proposed designs, lack of support from the state government, and lack of funding, all plans were abandoned in 2005. The winning design by Morphosis and mmenseArchitects was a glass and steel complex with an egg-shaped atrium.