PHOTOS: The design of the new Fire Station No. 1 is nearing completion, and construction could start this summer.
The city recently released near-final design renderings of the new fire station complex, which will be close to four times as large as the current Station No. 1 that's been located on the southeast corner of Beach Street and Orange Avenue since the 1920s.
The new 28,000-square-foot fire department headquarters, which will be built on Ridgewood Avenue a little south of City Hall, will have a very modern design with a roof contoured like a wave, red accents, floor-to-ceiling windows and exposed steel supports.
The design will be in stark contrast to the current 99-year-old Station No. 1, a quaint 8,000-square-foot station with a Mediterranean look and bell tower that sits on the western bank of the Halifax River.