Episode 4,
Season 5
Judgement Day
Random Facts/Goofs:
Boy
oh Boy! This is so not City Hall...at least not City
Hall in Boston.
Brief History of Boston
City Hall:
In
the 1960s Boston City Hall popularized the New Brutalist
style for government buildings in the U.S. The style
uses massive forms with site cast concrete, which is
left ruff, often with marks from wooden formwork or
texturing by hammer. The distinctly pidemporary effect
provides a stark pidrast to Old Boston City Hall.
The architects of City Hall explain that the structure
of the building is suggestive of the workings of
government. In this explanation the massive brick plaz
a
flows into the building where there are large public
spaces. The upper floors provide repetitive anonymous
space for agencies, and the bold middle section is for
the elected officials who a
re
the conduits between bureaucrats and the public.
The result is an uncharacteristically desolate building.
Its massive brick plaza provides space for open air
concerts, and space to celebrate the sporadic success of
Boston sports teams.
As an architect may I personally say
this movement of N
