... Cith Hall! What a magnificent surprise (not).
Of City Hall, one e-mails, “It’s scary, right out of ‘1984,’ intimidating and grim.’’ Another disses it as “a hideous and disastrously non-functional abomination of a building.’’ And another calls it “a landmark which is infamous, not famous.’’ Well, I did ask for passion.
Poor, unloved City Hall. Part of the bad idea that was 1960s urban renewal, as entire neighborhoods like the West End and Scollay Square were bulldozed and sanitized. Is City Hall truly awful? How can we measure its awfulness? Perhaps it's just woefully out of sync, like your grandmother shopping at Forever 21.
Not everyone agrees about City Hall, though. “Bet most of the bozos cite City Hall, one of the city’s best buildings,’’ writes one fan. I, too, am a fan of this powerful, ugly-and-wonderful building, and I look forward to the day when it gets the loving and inventive spruce up it needs and deserves.
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I like Boston City Hall. My only complaint is that there really needs to be a block of 3-4 story buildings that separate Government Center from Cambridge St and provide shops and restaurants for the square.
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