Boston City Hall Named World's Ugliest Building - New England Patriots Forums

***weswelker#83*** · 11-15-2008, 06:36 PM

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wbztv.com - Boston City Hall Named World's Ugliest Building

Patsfanin Philly · 11-15-2008, 07:24 PM

It didn't look so bad when they had all those Celtics championship parades there in the 80s.......................

sdaniels7114 · 11-15-2008, 09:02 PM

I can almost see them pouring burning oil out on an enraged populace.

WTF were they thinking?

I'd swear the artist was channeling the empire from The Empire Strikes Back except that didn't come out until 1980.

***weswelker#83*** · 11-16-2008, 08:25 AM

I love the city of Boston , it 's a pretty clean city with nice architecture , but that building specially , reminds me those old buildings from countries of the East Block (block oriented to Soviet Union)

Fogbuster · 11-16-2008, 03:01 PM

Yup, yup, yup, yup.

Ugly as sin. In a city like Boston, with all its history and value as a birthplace of America!!!

Tear down that monstronsity and build something beautiful. I completely agree it looks like a draconian empire headquarters. Is that Darth Vader looking out from the top floor window!!

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Lifer · 11-16-2008, 04:23 PM

I dont know, the Lindemann Center around the corner is pretty messed up too.

***DarrylS*** · 11-16-2008, 05:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Fogbuster

Yup, yup, yup, yup.

Ugly as sin. In a city like Boston, with all its history and value as a birthplace of America!!!

Tear down that monstronsity and build something beautiful. I completely agree it looks like a draconian empire headquarters. Is that Darth Vader looking out from the top floor window!!

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The non taxpayer who lives in a foreign nation, in a tax protected religion.. tells the people from Boston how to spend their money..

***IcyPatriot*** · 11-16-2008, 05:48 PM

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Boston City Hall - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
After viewing the building for the first time, some in the architecture community promptly praised it, including Ada Louise Huxtable, who said, “What has been gained is a notable achievement in the creation and control of urban space, and in the uses of monumentality and humanity in the best pattern of great city building. Old and New Boston are joined through an act of urban design that relates directly to the quality of the city and its life."

The praise was not universal. Then-Mayor John Collins reportedly gasped as the design was first unveiled, and someone in the room blurted out, "What the hell is that?"[1] City Hall is unpopular with Bostonians, as it is with employees of the building, who see it as a dark and unfriendly eyesore.[2] The structure's complex interior spaces result in cavernous voids, a confusing floorplan, and make the building very expensive to heat.

The surrounding City Hall Plaza has long been cited as a failure in terms of design and urban planning. In 2004 the Project for Public Spaces identified it as the worst single public plaza worldwide, out of hundreds of contenders.[3] Some efforts have been made to liven up City Hall Plaza, but these have been met with mixed

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