The shape of the Boston City Hall popularized the phenotype based clearly on La Tourette, that was to be encountered in similar...
The shape of the Boston City Hall popularized the phenotype based clearly on La Tourette, that was to be encountered in similar shapes the world over (#LaTouretteType): It can be read as a temple missing its gable.
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Photos: Boston City Archives 2013 (CC BY 2.0) / Ernst Halberstadt / U.S. National Archives (CC BY 2.0) / Ron Gilbert 1985 (CC BY-ND 2.0) / Bill Lebovic / Library of Congress 1981 (public domain) / Peter Miller 2013 (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) / See-ming Lee 2010 (CC BY-SA 2.0) / Gunnar Klack 2018 (CC BY-SA 2.0)
This building takes a lot of shit, and honestly it deserves it – I don’t know how on earth they managed to make brutalism both tediously historicist and busy