Back مبنى بلدية بوسطن Arabic Boston City Hall Czech Boston City Hall German Ayuntamiento de Boston Spanish Hôtel de ville de Boston French בניין עיריית בוסטון HE Municipio di Boston Italian 보스턴 시청사 Korean Бостонская мэрия Russian Boston City Hall Slovak
| Boston City Hall | |
|---|---|
 Boston City Hall in February 2012 | |
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| General information | |
| Architectural style | Brutalist |
| Location | 1 City Hall Square Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Coordinates | 42°21′37.16″N 71°3′28.68″W / 42.3603222°N 71.0579667°W |
| Construction started | 1963 |
| Completed | 1968 |
| Inaugurated | February 10, 1969[1] |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect(s) | |
| Structural engineer | LeMessurier Consultants |
| Other information | |
| Public transit access |  Blue Line Green Line Orange Line |
| Website | |
| Official website | |
Boston City Hall is the seat of city government of Boston, Massachusetts. It includes the offices of the mayor of Boston and the Boston City Council. The current hall was built in 1968 to assume the functions of the Old City Hall.[2]
It is a controversial and prominent example of Brutalist architecture, part of the modernist movement.[3][4] It was designed by the architecture firms Kallmann McKinnell & Knowles and Campbell, Aldrich & Nulty, with LeMessurier Consultants as engineers.[5][6][7]
Together with the surrounding plaza, City Hall is part of the Government Center complex. This project constituted a major urban redesign effort in the 1960s, as Boston demolished an area of housing and businesses.
The building has been subject to widespread public condemnation, and is sometimes called one of the world's ugliest buildings. Calls for the structure to be demolished have been regularly made even before construction was finished.[8] Architects and critics considered it to be excellent work, with one poll from 1976 finding that professional architects describe Boston City Hall as one of the ten proudest achievements of American architecture.[9] The building is a designated Boston Landmark.
- ^ Huxtable, Ada Louise (February 8, 1969). "Boston's New City Hall: A Public Building of Quality". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved January 27, 2025.
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nytimeswas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "Throwback Thursday: When Boston's City Hall Was New (and Already Unloved)", Boston Magazine, February 13, 2014, retrieved November 4, 2023
- ^ "Kallmann McKinnel & Knowles / Campbell, Aldrich & Nulty: Boston City Hall". #SOSBRUTALISM. Retrieved August 27, 2016.
- ^ http://friendsofbostoncityhall.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/A-Walking-Tour-of-City-Hall.pdf Archived June 2, 2016, at the Wayback Machine Archived guided tour pamphlet for Boston City Hall, published by Boston City Council
- ^ Survey, Historic American Buildings. "Boston City Hall, One City Hall Square, Boston, Suffolk County, MA". loc.gov. Retrieved November 15, 2018.
- ^ "Boston City Hall". DoCoMoMo-US.org. Retrieved April 18, 2016.
- ^ Rennix, Adrian; Robinson, Nathan J. (October 31, 2017). "Why You Hate Contemporary Architecture – Current Affairs". Current Affairs (July/Aug 2017). Retrieved November 15, 2018.
- ^ "AIArchitect This Week | for Whom the Polls Toll". Archived from the original on December 17, 2013. Retrieved December 17, 2013. Synopsis of AIA Polls