Yeah, that's it, thanx. The photo at the site I
attempted to link is even more stark. I believe this is called the Brutalist school of architecture.
Yeah, but this worldwide, not just Boston. As Jespah said, we're # 1!!!
Here is Austin's City Hall...
Interior...
Exterior...
That IS pretty bad, RP. Looks like a college architecture class project from the '70s. ("C" work at that.)
The de Young looked friendlier in your photo, Osso, when the copper was new. It's black now. Not even a nice patina. Sheesh. I understand they're planting things on the tower, so eventually it will have vines or something on it. As much as I dislike that idea, at least it will cover up part of it.
I do like the Denver Art Museum in your photo, too. Not so much in Dys' photo. But hey...at least it's not black.
A brutalist facade with floating white tennis balls. Don't those people look depressed?
Hah, I thought I was kidding when I said brutalist.
Wonder how those diving windows work with office space. Bummer...
I'm mixed on the outside. It's not boring. On the other hand..
I have this bias, that there is a certain comfort for humans with balance, if not symmetry, in design. The breaking of a sense of balance can be exciting, and it tends to involve movement or an impression of movement. I think I want my work life to take place in a space that feels stable - if I am concentrating on details of a job...
just mulling.
I really like it.
here's my favorite building, the Frost Bank Tower.
What would you expect from the government? You can also bet that there's twice as many handicapped parking spaces in their garages as their own laws require, sitting empty, and wheelchair ramps to the health club cardio room....
I'll say one thin g about good ole cjhsa -- he sure knew how to kill a thread dead.
FYI for anyone who's never seen the building (this happens to be the view from my company's Boston office):
Rereading the thread, at the beginning I said something nicey about Boston City Hall, and I see I meant the one that Region posted, not the Brutal splotch on the landscape. Or, I hope I did.
And to think they tore down ole Scollay Square, with its warren of burlesque houses, gin mills and cheap rooming houses to build this monstrosity. Sad, really.
