Comments on: Boston’s Wonderful/Terrible City Hall http://www.williamlanday.com/2009/08/31/bostons-wonderfulterrible-city-hall/ Official web site of the author of "Defending Jacob" Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:39:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: William Landay http://www.williamlanday.com/2009/08/31/bostons-wonderfulterrible-city-hall/#comment-78 William Landay Tue, 01 Sep 2009 15:44:58 +0000 http://williamlanday.com/blog/?p=1012#comment-78 So true, Doug. The interior is equally good in this way. It's like a big maze that begs to be explored. The original design called for lots of warmer materials, furnishings, and lighting to soften the "brutalism" of all that hard molded concrete. Menino is great at making the trains run on time but his taste in architecture is, for lack of a better word, brutish. In this one battle, at least, I am rooting against him. So true, Doug. The interior is equally good in this way. It’s like a big maze that begs to be explored. The original design called for lots of warmer materials, furnishings, and lighting to soften the “brutalism” of all that hard molded concrete. Menino is great at making the trains run on time but his taste in architecture is, for lack of a better word, brutish. In this one battle, at least, I am rooting against him.

]]> By: Doug Cornelius http://www.williamlanday.com/2009/08/31/bostons-wonderfulterrible-city-hall/#comment-77 Doug Cornelius Tue, 01 Sep 2009 01:53:58 +0000 http://williamlanday.com/blog/?p=1012#comment-77 I am one of the few who thinks Boston's City Hall is an incredible piece of architecture. City Hall Plaza is a disaster, but the building itself is wonderful. Brutish, confusing, special pockets of influence, repetitive. All the things we associate with big city government are captured in the building. I am one of the few who thinks Boston’s City Hall is an incredible piece of architecture. City Hall Plaza is a disaster, but the building itself is wonderful.

Brutish, confusing, special pockets of influence, repetitive. All the things we associate with big city government are captured in the building.

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