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Curbed Boston included City Hall on its 2018 list of Boston's "10 ugliest buildings." [39] A 2016 Boston Globe essay about "Boston flops, flubs, and failures" said City Hall was "cracking internally like a dead molar waiting to be pulled. [40]
The second-tallest building in Boston is the Prudential Tower, which rises 52 floors and 749 feet (228 m). [3] At the time of the Prudential Tower's completion in 1964, it stood as the tallest building in North America outside of New York City .
A common theme in brutalist designs is the exposure of the building's inner-workings—ranging from their structure and services to their human use—in the exterior of the building. In the Boston City Hall, designed in 1962, the strikingly different and projected portions of the building indicate the special nature of the rooms behind those ...
Boston Government Service Center, Boston (Paul Rudolph, 1962–71) [2]: 67 Braintree High School, Braintree (1972) Campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge (Le Corbusier, (1962) [2]: 61 Countway Library - Harvard University, Boston [15]
Government Center is an area in downtown Boston, centered on City Hall Plaza. Formerly the site of Scollay Square, it is now the location of Boston City Hall, courthouses, state and federal office buildings, and a major MBTA subway station, also called Government Center. Its development was controversial, as the project displaced thousands of ...
The complex is made up of two connected Brutalist buildings: the Charles F. Hurley Building and the Erich Lindemann Building, as well as a courtyard; sometimes included is the newer, 1998-built, Edward W. Brooke Courthouse. The Hurley and Lindemann buildings are designated Category Two buildings in Boston, holding major significance for the city.
The architecture of Boston is a robust combination of old and new architecture. As one of the oldest cities in North America, Boston, Massachusetts (along with its surrounding area) has accumulated buildings and structures ranging from the 17th-century to the present day, having evolved from a small port town to a large cosmopolitan center for education, industry, finance, and technology.
Many of the notable surviving brutalist buildings in England are listed on the National Heritage List for England. Inclusion on the list is based on a building's "special architectural and historic interest", with "particularly careful selection required" for buildings constructed after 1945 (i.e. all brutalist structures). [10]