Boston City Hall

I know that I don’t really fancy exploring cities. Sometimes I feel like there isn’t much to see here. I think I am already feeling it. A lot of the places that I am seeing are historically important but so far they haven’t been all the impressive to me. I know how important they are but these are places which I probably won’t go back to. I was making my way through the city and somehow ended up going towards the sea. That is when I saw one of the more significant structures in the city and that is the Boston City Hall.

It is not easy to miss Boston City Hall. It has a very distinctive architecture almost like an upside down pyramid with the supports all exposed. This type of architecture is called brutalist architecture. Immediately, I know that I am not a fan of this style, however, it seems the it was loved by architects but loathed by everyone else. This was built at a time when building monuments was seen as a good thing. So the city hall was designed to be a monument. The city hall has quite a lot of open space around it and you can see people just sitting around here. Parts are sheltered by the nearby buildings and by the city hall itself that I think I should do the same thing.

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