Tag Archives: Boston City Hall

Boston City Hall: ‘A Building People Love to Hate But Shouldn’t’

Posted on March 6, 2022 by Campaign Outsider

The other day the hardworking staff stumbled upon this Architectural Digest post headlined “10 Buildings People Love to Hate but Shouldn’t: Reconsidering Brutalism, architecture’s most argued-over style.” Immediately we thought, Boston City Hall has got to be one of them. … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Ada Louise Huxtable, Architectural Digest, Boston City Hall, Boston City Hall Plaza, Boston Globe, Boston's Brutalist Boondoggle, Campbell Aldrich & Nulty, Government Center, Kallmann McKinnell & Knowles, LeMessurier, Robert Campbell, Sarah Schweitzer, Sasaki | Leave a comment

Hey, Marty Walsh: Hire THIS Guy to Fix City Hall Plaza

Posted on July 1, 2015 by Campaign Outsider

Since roughly 1969, one question has vexed every Boston mayor: What the hell to do with City Hall Plaza? And the answer that has routinely come back: Damned if we know. Regardless, the latest chapter of this ongoing saga is unfolding at … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Boston City Hall, Central Park, City Hall Pathetic Redesign Project, City Hall Plaza, Cleveland, Emerald Necklace, Eric Jaffe, Frederick Law Olmsted, James Corner, James Corner Field Operations, Marty Walsh, New York High Line, Public Square, The Atlantic | Leave a comment

Wait! A City Hall Plaza Redesign! (Exhibit Chumpteen)

Posted on January 15, 2015 by Campaign Outsider

From our Late to the Renovation Party desk Here we go again. In his State of the City address on Tuesday, Boston Mayor Marty Walsh promised to “reimagine City Hall Plaza as the thriving, healthy, innovative space that it should … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Ada Louise Huxtable, Boston City Hall, Boston City Hall Plaza, Boston City Hall Plaza redesign, Boston Globe, City Hall Plaza, Daniel Koh, Marty Walsh, State of the City | 2 Comments

“How Boston Fixes a Pothole”

Posted on June 17, 2014 by Campaign Outsider

Politico has a series called What Works and its latest installment is Boston: There’s an App for That, by Ben Schreckinger. “Civic hacking” and the transformation of local government. Boston’s City Hall is a 500,000-square-foot concrete monstrosity. Built in 1968, … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Ben Schreckinger, Boston City Hall, How Boston Fixes a Pothole, Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics, Museum of Science, Politico, What Works | 1 Comment

WSJ Sends Off Ada Louise Huxtable In Style

Posted on January 10, 2013 by Campaign Outsider

The great Ada Louise Huxtable, who pretty much invented architecture criticism in her writing for the New York Times and Wall Street Journal, has died at the age of 91. Wednesday’s Journal features an impressive tribute to Huxtable: Her Critical Judgments Were … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 42nd Street Library, Ada Louise Huxtable, Boston City Hall, Boston Herald, Ken Fallin, Michael Kimmelman, MOMA, New York Public Library, New York Times, Wall Street Journal | 2 Comments

Herald Serves Up Menino Leftovers

Posted on November 21, 2012 by Campaign Outsider

Yesterday’s Boston Globe featured the main course: A front-page piece on the hospital room where Boston Mayor Tom Menino’s been holed up for a month with a Whitman’s Sampler of symptoms from blood clots to spinal cracks. Hospital room is now Mayor … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Boston City Hall, Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Dot Joyce, Tom Menino | Leave a comment

Free The City Hall One!

Posted on March 24, 2010 by Campaign Outsider

From our Late to the Party desk: The umpteenth Boston Globe piece (in Sunday’s edition) on Boston City Hall as the ugliest building in town, at least according to local residents. Maybe . . . But wait! Don’t answer yet! … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 1969, Ada Louise Huxtable, Boston City Hall, New York Times | 7 Comments