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Boston’s Landmarks Commission voted last week to recognize City Hall as a historic landmark, paving the way for the divisive building to secure protection from major changes in the future. The ...
As Boston City Hall celebrates its 50th anniversary, the city digs deeper into plans to renovate the massive, concrete building. ... Along with interior improvements, ...
The process through which City Hall could attain landmark status started back in 2007, when a group of voters submitted a petition to the Boston Landmarks Commission asking for the designation.
Boston City Hall has been declared a local historic landmark for its iconic — if sometimes controversial — brutalist ...
Boston City Hall controversies Boston City Hall has not been without public scrutiny in recent years. In 2023, it was voted the fourth ugliest building in the world by Buildworld.co .
I’ve never thought Boston City Hall was ugly, ... I’d be remiss, however, if I didn’t mention the interior. If there’s a hall of shame for such spaces, Boston City Hall would indeed qualify.
An interior view of Boston City Hall. (Courtesy Ezra Stoller/Esto) While always proud of the brutalist structure that is City Hall, Krieger remembers McKinnell was always a little saddened that ...
The Boston Landmarks Commission has recommended the City Hall’s exterior and interior main lobby space be designated as a landmark in a report released last week. The move to landmark City Hall ...
Boston City Hall sits on a plinth, an eight-acre brick plaza modeled after the Piazza del Campo in Siena, Italy. But it is not in Tuscany and needs tweaking.
Boston-based experimental art collective Mobius will transform City Hall’s solemn gray interior with an elaborate art installation involving 13 artists in practically as many mediums.
It’s official now. Boston City Hall is the ugliest building . . . in the world! Bostonians didn’t need VirtualTourist.com and City Hall’s top billing on the World’s Top 10 Ugliest ...
Boston’s Landmarks Commission voted last week to recognize City Hall as a historic landmark, paving the way for the divisive building to secure protection from major changes in the future. The ...