Boston City Hall (Boston, Massachusetts)

USA / Massachusetts / Boston / Boston, Massachusetts / City Hall Square, 1
 city hall, 1968_construction, Modern (architecture)
1 City Hall Square
Boston, MA 02201
(617) 635-4000
www.cityofboston.gov/

Boston City Hall is the home of the municipal government of Boston, Massachusetts. City Hall is a 9-level, horizontally-oriented brutalist designed by Kallmann McKinnell & Knowles and located at the heart of a brick-paved Government Center plaza in downtown Boston. It is rectangular in plan, but is an inverted pyramid in elevation. The masterplan for Government Center was designed by IM Pei.
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Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_City_Hall
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Coordinates:   42°21'37"N   71°3'28"W

Comments

  • Its really ugly. The majority of the people who work there hate the dim inside lighting, drafty high ceilings and gigantic doors.
  • Voted as the world's ugliest building by VirtualTourist.com, and I can't say I disagree. An architectural train wreck, to be sure. http://news.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/2008_11_14_Poll:_City_Hall_ugliest_building_on_planet/srvc=home&position=4
  • Bollocks. This is marvelous stuff. Why shoul Architecture just be about pretty and beautiful. Leave it as it is philastines.
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