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Article: Working with City Hall; Gallery displays ideas for redesigning the controversial downtown site
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- September 23, 2007
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ARCHITECTURE
Mayor Menino hates Boston City Hall. So do a lot of other people.
Now six young, bright architecture firms are suggesting ways to
redesign it.
Why redesign City Hall? It was much admired when it opened, back
in 1968. In a 1976 national poll of architects and scholars, it was
ranked the seventh greatest building in American history.
But tastes change. City Hall is now probably the least loved
building in Massachusetts, possibly the least loved in our entire
galaxy. "Hulking concrete fortress" would be a typical description
today.
The mayor wants to abandon City Hall and build a shiny new one,
perhaps on the South Boston waterfront, perhaps in Dudley Square.
Should we let him? Can ...