Built in 1968 by Kallmann McKinnell & Knowles, Boston City Hall is one of the most controversial examples of brutalist architecture. Its raw concrete exterior, modular design and cavernous ...

Pei’s Dallas City Hall, another widely reviled brutalist exemplar whose steeply-pitched, seven-story, 560-foot-long main elevation again suggests an inverted ziggurat or pyramid, also appears to be on ...

The brutalist movement was popular from the 1950s ... religious sculpture and landscaping of the highest order. Boston City Hall is as polarizing a piece of architecture as exists in America.

Boston City Hall. Image Courtesy of Kallmann, McKinnell, & Knowles Michael McKinnell, a British-born American architect, known for his work on the acclaimed Boston’s Brutalist City Hall ...