He changed the face of San Diego with projects like UC San Diego's La Jolla Playhouse, the San Diego Central Library and the 2001 expansion of the San Diego Convention Center with its distinctive Sail Pavilion.
Hal Sadler roamed the world’s cities and landscapes, hunted in Idaho and rooted for the Chargers.
His legacy includes the three bank towers on B Street, UC San Diego’s La Jolla Playhouse, the San Diego Central Library and the 2001 expansion of the San Diego Convention Center with its distinctive Sail Pavilion. He also was instrumental in many San Diego Zoo projects, including what is known today as the Dickinson Family iCenter for Lifelong Learning, Polar Bear Plunge and Hippo Beach.
The San Diego Rotary Club named him “Mr. San Diego” in 2007 for his devotion to “the betterment of the city he loves so much.” He married his high school sweetheart, Mary Beecher, who earned an interior design degree at Woodbury University but instead of launching a career, devoted herself to raising their two daughters, Lindi and Cindi, and volunteer work. But she had her own ideas for their new house.
In 1962, he got a lucky break to design the city’s Evan V. Jones Parkade with two continuous, intermeshing spiral ramps. Then came the 24-story First National Bank Building at Fifth Avenue and B Street that opened in 1966 on the site of the 1924 Orpheum movie theater. Its most distinctive feature is the third-floor outdoor plaza. He returned to the project in 1990 to help refresh it.
In the 1990s he began working on a new downtown library with Rob Quigley that after many delays finally opened in 2013 near Petco Park. Sadler also led the design for the 2001 addition to the San Diego Convention Center. As a break from business, Sadler would attend Chargers games, watch sports on TV and occasionally run into danger on fishing and hunting trips. One time his rifle backfired when he faced a bear while camping. Another time, his skiff overturned on Rio Hardy in Mexico and had to scramble ashore, his dog clinging to his back.Sadler was one of the last of San Diego’s midcentury modern architects who brought a new sense of form-follows-function design in the 1950s and ‘60s.
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