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Boston City Hall
Once called "the world's ugliest building", now defended as the era's clearest civic statement in concrete.
Why this matters
- Inverted-pyramid form with public spaces at the base, offices stacked above
- Inspired by Le Corbusier's monastery at La Tourette
- Won a 1962 international competition out of 256 entries
- Subject of decades of "tear down or restore" debate
Reference prompt
inverted concrete pyramid civic building with deep recesses, Boston City Hall brutalist, harsh shadows
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Drawings · Pro
Floor plans, sections and elevations for this building will appear here.
Coming with archpin v0.3 — a 200-building drawings pack curated from published monographs.
Coming with archpin v0.3 — a 200-building drawings pack curated from published monographs.
Critics
“Brutal in the original sense — béton brut — and brutal in the punishing sense. Boston City Hall is both, deliberately.”
Source
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_City_Hall ↗Photo: Daniel Schwen / Wikimedia (CC BY-SA)