There’s an AP article reprinted on WTOPnews.com that says that the Boston Mayor has suggested selling City Hall and its surrounding brick plaza to developers, and building a new City Hall elsewhere. WTOP judged this story to be weird enough that it’s included in the “Watercooler” stories section – which I can only take to mean that the editors on the WTOP site haven’t actually seen this thing.
I have. If I were the Mayor of Boston, I’d suggest razing City Hall in every meeting. Sometimes twice. I have to say that it is the single ugliest piece of civic architecture I have ever seen in my life, and working in D.C., that’s not easily said.
The article describes it as “a modernist style known as ‘brutalism’.” I’d describe it as a massive, looming, incongruous eyesore surrounded by a dismal wasteland of concrete.
More unflattering pictures and discussion on Wikipedia.
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A-freaking-men to that.