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How Boston City Hall was born

67 点作者 goles5 个月前

18 条评论

jcstauffer5 个月前
I always think of the building (and brutalist architecture in general) as absurdist architecture, and I find City Hall to be quite humorous in that light.<p>The general shape lifts up and is trying to appear as if it&#x27;s floating, in contrast to the material selection. Think of an Elephant ballerina, or Douglas Adams &quot;It hung in the air in exactly the way bricks don&#x27;t&quot;.<p>Another example is the Holman government building a few blocks away - with these ridiculous stairways through a massive open space underneath an imposing bridge of offices.<p>Pure absurdist humor.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;maps.app.goo.gl&#x2F;KUFh9jFkERjhp7MK9" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;maps.app.goo.gl&#x2F;KUFh9jFkERjhp7MK9</a>
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MiddleEndian5 个月前
I like Boston City Hall.<p>Compare it to 28 State St, right next to it: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;maps.app.goo.gl&#x2F;jjHpGGuPkxgjXiPT7" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;maps.app.goo.gl&#x2F;jjHpGGuPkxgjXiPT7</a><p>28 State St is kinda ugly, but bland and forgettable.<p>Boston City Hall is so hideous and frightening that people outside of Boston know about it. Its appearance is a recurring topic in the news. That is impressive.
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BugsJustFindMe5 个月前
Boston City Hall is objectively beautiful and photos of it are all universally awesome (though it could stand a good powerwashing). The problem that locals experience and cannot escape is that it happens to be located on a giant ugly swath of absolutely not a goddamn thing called City Hall Plaza. So the building itself is grand, but the experience of looking at it in person is pretty bad and ominous purely because of the surrounding environment.
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botswana995 个月前
I like brutalist architecture. And I am not the only strange one: r&#x2F;brutalist has 174K members and the original fuckyeahbrutalism on tumbler.<p>Think of it like being a fan of 486 PCs or pixel art.<p>I do hate this architecture, though: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Bowellism" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Bowellism</a>
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otras5 个月前
&gt; It was in this context that the city decided to demolish the neighborhood known as Scollay Square and build in its place what would come to be called Government Center.<p>It’s interesting (and sad) to imagine what Boston could have been like without the damage of urban renewal. These neighborhoods could have easily become the quaint North Ends people love today.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;West_End,_Boston" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;West_End,_Boston</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Scollay_Square" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Scollay_Square</a><p>It’s also eye opening to realize the extent of their plans that <i>didn’t</i> get done:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Interstate_695_(Massachusetts)" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Interstate_695_(Massachusett...</a>
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screye5 个月前
Boston City Hall is the perfect candidate for an eco-brutalist makeover. Add the SF Hyatt Regency while you&#x27;re at it.<p>Europe&#x27;s eco-brutalist buildings are gorgeous. [1] [2]<p>Boston City Hall&#x27;s problem is the windy open plaza. The building stands as the only imposing mass in that area. If there were trees and other shelter, one could admire it. But as it stands today, it intimidates.<p>All that being said, positives changes are happening. Cop slide is definitely one of Boston&#x27;s must see attractions.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;artanddesign&#x2F;gallery&#x2F;2024&#x2F;may&#x2F;11&#x2F;eco-brutalism-when-angular-concrete-meets-the-wonder-of-nature-in-pictures" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;artanddesign&#x2F;gallery&#x2F;2024&#x2F;may&#x2F;11...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.archdaily.com&#x2F;958637&#x2F;uncovering-the-hidden-gems-of-brutalism-in-madrid" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.archdaily.com&#x2F;958637&#x2F;uncovering-the-hidden-gems-...</a>
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don-code5 个月前
Architecturally, the city of Boston has changed many times. You can more or less pinpoint when a building was built by its appearance. City Hall&#x27;s architecture is mirrored in most of the transit stops from the 1970s-era expansion. Some of them (e.g. Wollaston, Harvard) have since been rebuilt; others (e.g. Quincy Adams, Malden Center) are still concrete behemoths like City Hall.<p>Anything built within the last ten years is, of course, LEED-chic - the building is a glass box.
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Finnucane5 个月前
When you walk across the plaza in front of the building, you do get the sense that this is a building with a message. And that message is: We will crush you.
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mazugrin25 个月前
And at least there&#x27;s this there now: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Cop_slide" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Cop_slide</a>
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spcebar5 个月前
The buildings across the street from the city hall plaza are an interesting counterpoint or maybe complement to brutalism. They&#x27;re the same cement architecture but the concave areas of the faces are filled with brick, so it looks like a blending of the architectural styles of older Boston neighborhoods (like adjacent Beacon Hill) and the brutalism of many of Boston&#x27;s municipal buildings. It&#x27;s a lot easier on the eyes.<p>There&#x27;s plenty of brutalist architecture around Boston and Cambridge, though none is as pronounced as city hall, in its massive open square, which in winter keenly acts as a powerful wind tunnel to smite those who would walk through the plaza.
jcalabro5 个月前
[2012] it took me a second when they said &quot;Mayor Thomas M. Menino&quot; rather than &quot;former Mayor Thomas M. Menino&quot;
light_hue_15 个月前
&gt; In the 50 years since, architects worldwide have declared Kallmann and McKinnell’s City Hall one of the greatest buildings of the 20th century<p>I despise architecture as a field. This is widely reviled building. I work in a similar building that is extremely user hostile but beloved by architects; every single day, multiple times per day, we run into stupid limitations of the building. And it&#x27;s particularly nasty for people with disabilities.<p>In engineering we care so much about the end user experience. In everything from building fridges, to roads, to HVAC systems, etc.<p>That these two people see this as a work of art, instead of a practical thing that humans need to interface with, and that the artistic nature of the building is more important than the people, is incredibly selfish.<p>Selfish and shameful.
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mazugrin25 个月前
There used to be a neighborhood around it that had architecture similar to what the neighboring North End still has, which is very distinct among the entirety of the Americas. The lack of imagination that existed back then that led to it all being razed to build this and the rest of the garbage of the current West End is stunning.
Eumenes5 个月前
Its truly hideous. Old City Hall is beautiful. Why can&#x27;t we build nice things anymore?
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rayiner5 个月前
How Boston City Hall was born: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.britannica.com&#x2F;topic&#x2F;Frankenstein-film-by-Whale" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.britannica.com&#x2F;topic&#x2F;Frankenstein-film-by-Whale</a>
walrus015 个月前
People interested in Boston City Hall should also visit the campus of Simon Fraser University, should they ever find themselves in the metro Vancouver area.
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katamaster8185 个月前
non paywalled link: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.is&#x2F;mPF37" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.is&#x2F;mPF37</a>
7e5 个月前
This is the worst building that exists in Boston at present.