Beyond practical improvements, these renovations have also sought to reframe the perception of City Hall as a more inviting civic space. Once seen as an unapproachable Brutalist fortress ...

M. Pei to replace dilapidated historic fabric on and around the city’s old Scollay Square. Pei’s Dallas City Hall, another widely reviled brutalist exemplar whose steeply-pitched, seven-story, ...

BOSTON - Boston City Hall, known for its brutalist architecture, is now an official historic landmark despite once being named the fourth-ugliest building in the world. Mayor Michelle Wu and the ...

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 ...

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 ...

City Hall, the brutalist bastion of local government at the heart of the city, was completed in 1968. The historic landmark designation process started in 2007. Last year, the Commission released ...