Simonson noted: "The brutalist style of Boston City Hall by Kallmann McKinnell & Knowles presents a completely different architecture of the Colonial-era buildings that neighbor it.

It was never popular. The “crowdsolving” design platform Buildworld recently ranked two infamous specimens, the J. Edgar Hoover FBI headquarters building in Washington and Boston’s City Hall, as ...

Since its opening, Boston City Hall has faced numerous calls for demolition. By the 2000s, the building was widely unpopular, with critics deeming it an eyesore and a relic of an outdated ...

Boston City Hall, which was completed in 1968, is considered a classic example of Brutalist architecture. Yunghi Kim/The Boston Globe via Getty Images ...

Michael McKinnell, a British-born American architect, known for his work on the acclaimed Boston’s Brutalist City Hall, and co-founder of the Kallmann McKinnell & Wood architectural design firm ...

In the 1960s, City Hall was almost replaced with a Brutalist-style building, much like Boston’s current City Hall, but that plan fell through and it left Providence with a unique City Hall ...

Still, Brutalism’s detractors have presented the style’s unattractiveness as a fact. In 2018, Mr. Trump reportedly said of the F.B.I. building: “It’s one of the Brutalist-type buildings ...

In a direct precedent for Dallas, last month Boston designated its brutalist city hall — a 1968 masterpiece designed by the firm Kallmann, McKinnell and Knowles — as a landmark.

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.

Mayor Michelle Wu and the Boston Landmark Commission designated Boston City Hall as an official historic landmark on Jan. 24 despite the building’s criticism from the public. Constructed in 1968, the ...

Boston City Hall has been a hallmark of the brutalist architectural style since it was built in 1968, and now it’s officially a local landmark. The distinctive (and divisive) concrete building ...