Boston City Hall is brutal, and that’s not a subjective statement. The late longtime Mayor Tom Menino once proposed selling off the “cold, unfriendly” building to be demolished and moving ...

When Boston’s City Hall was formally dedicated 45 years ago this week, the imposing concrete structure had ... City Hall is so ugly that its insane upside-down wedding-cake columns and ...

Boston City Hall, an icon of 1960s brutalist architecture, is now 55 years old and in need of a slew of repairs. The city is pouring a lot of money into fixing its aging insides — nearly $80 ...

Boston’s aging City Hall is in something of a transitional period, in line for significant amounts of work as the five-and-a-half-decade-old lump of concrete provides its own unique challenges ...

Boston City Hall was an atrocious waste of space when it first rose above the grave of Scollay Square in the 1960s. It’s been that way during all of Mayor Tom Menino’s 20 years in office, and ...

Readers Say What readers think about Boston City Hall’s historic landmark designation Boston City Hall was designated a historical landmark on Jan. 25, to both praise and disapproval from readers.

Boston City Hall was designated a historical landmark on Jan. 25, to both praise and disapproval from readers. The post What ...

The Boston City Hall — the notorious Brutalist landmark of the city — has faced substantial backlash, criticism, and ridicule over the decades. Unfortunately, it was recently named the fourth ...

The Globe took an in-depth look at how the City Hall design was born in a 2012 Ideas piece. “Art is not what pleases you immediately,” one of the architects told the Globe. “It is not pretty ...

As the brutalist Boston City Hall by Kallman, McKinnel, & Knowles celebrates its 50th birthday, Aaron Betsky reflects on the building's history and wonders if proposed updates will bring it a ...

Boston City Hall and City Hall Plaza pictured in 1973. Photo by Peter H. Dreyer Rights, City of Boston; Peter H. Dreyer slide collection, Collection #9800.007, City of Boston Archives A comprehensive, ...