Boston city hall

The complicated revival of the simply honest brand of architecture.

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Boston City Hall by Kallmann McKinnell & Knowles

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Image 13 of 18 from gallery of Architecture City Guide: Boston. Boston City Hall / Kallman, McKinnell and Knowles

Fifty years after a groundbreaking competition, two architects look back at the project that polarized the city — and gave it a new lease on life.

File name: 08_02_002623 Box label: Public buildings: City halls Title: City Hall Alternative title: New Boston City Hall Creator/Contributor: Date issued: Date created: 1980 - 1989 (approximate) Physical description: 1 photographic print : gelatin silver ; 6 1/2 x 10 in. Genre: Gelatin silver prints Subjects: Boston City Hall (Boston, Mass.); City & town halls; Buildings Notes: Provenance: Gift of Rick Zonghi - 2002 Statement of responsibility: Location: Boston Public Library, Print…

Dung Ngo on Instagram: “Las Torres Blancas, by Spanish architect Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oiza, 1969, Madrid . London has the Barbican, Boston has the City Hall…”

Boston City Hall is brutal, and that’s not a subjective statement. The late longtime Mayor Tom Menino once proposed selling off the “cold, unfriendly” building to be demolished and moving city government to the waterfront. His successor, Mayor Marty Walsh, campaigned on the idea. But notwithstanding the looming concrete fortress’s many detractors — and there are […]