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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.
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]
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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]
Learn about the Brutalist design style and Brutalist architecture of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s and modern Brutalist design concepts.
Brutalist buildings are unornamented concrete hulks. Perhaps the most iconic is the J. Edgar Hoover FBI Building, declared the ugliest building in the U.S. and the second ugliest in the world in a ...
A notable pairing of brutalist campus buildings is found at Durham University, with Ove Arup's Grade I-listed Kingsgate Bridge (1963), one of only six post-1961 buildings to have been listed as Grade I by 2017, [74] [75] and the Grade II-listed Dunelm House (Richard Raines of the Architects' Co-Partnership; 1964–66), described in its listing ...
The college was previously known as the Boston Architectural Center. By 1965, the BAC had developed a continuing education program to serve the broader community. In the mid-1960s, it was forced out of its Somerset Street building and purchased a three-story brick building at 320 Newbury Street. The structure was a former stable and was solid ...