It looks like an extremely clumsy game of Tetris that got abandoned halfway through.

It’s a secret, I’m not Ghana tell.

If I had a time machine, would definitely go back and walk around Scollay Square.

Please don’t disrupt the load-bearing grime

It looks like the regional branch of an evil fictional corporation from an 80's Sci-Fi movie. Weyland-Yutani, Tyrell Corp, Omni Consumer Products, Cyberdyne, the like.

Which means it fucking slaps.

City Hall would be absolute fire with a light covering of moss or vines.

Blade Runner meets Jedi Temple vibes.

I think people are generally too harsh on brutalism. City hall isn’t even the ugliest building in Boston.

city hall rocks and I will fight anyone who disagrees

That could be said about a lot of the city, including the MBTA

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The "1870s redditors" were right IMO lol. But I think this is a good point overall. Eras just have different styles due to economics, technology, artistic preferences, etc., etc...

My main issue with City Hall isn't the building itself, but rather that City Hall Plaza is an empty wasteland where a real neighborhood used to be. Scollay Square was a bustling working-class neighborhood, with its own unique character. Today, City Hall and most of the surrounding buildings see traffic only on weekdays, 9-5. That whole part of Boston feels like a monument to an era where we kicked people out of cities and reduced their neighborhoods to office parks.

Hive mind regardless, it is a hideous building. If you want brutalism that works, Clark University's Robert Goddard Library is very spiffy.

We’re all entitled to our own opinions. Yours happens to be wrong.

Who brought the vexilologist!

If you like that, I've got a whole campus down in Dartmouth you'll LOVE.

Where did they say it wasn’t allowed?

Doesn’t need to be class. That building is gross.

Cape Cod homes are just so easy and cheap, gonna age terribly. Just part of the race to the bottom... (Reddit: Circa 1800~)

The colonial model is so easy, cheap and gonna age terribly. Just part of the race to the bottom for developers (Reddit: circa 1850~)

The triple decker model is so easy, cheap and is gonna age terribly. Just a part of a race to the bottom (Reddit: Circa 1870~)

Reddit circa 2020~: Ugh we keep tearing down these beautiful historic buildings and homes for these soul-less, bland modern condo and apartment buildings! Where has all the character gone!

Should I keep going?

/r/Boston - BUILD MORE DENSE HOUSING.

Developers build 5:1 buildings far more dense than stand alone buildings

/r/boston NO NOT LIKE THAT MAKE IT COOL LOOKING OR SOMETHING, RENOVATE HISTORIC BUILDINGS!

Developers: OK, but it's going to be expensive....

/r/boston NO. ALSO IT MUST BE AFFORABLE HOUSING

JFC what do you people want?

We can get housing "good" in terms of aesthetics and art, "fast" in that we all seem to agree we're in a housing crisis or "cheap" in that the developer can build it and rent units out at a reasonable cost.

Choose two. We can't have all three without massive government subsidies and as much as I'm in favor of that, and policies like UBI, it's really unlikely to happen even in the deep blue sea of MA. Can we just take what we can get instead of whining about generic 5:1 construction (which to draw attention to my original point is how construction has always worked and why you drive through neighborhoods where all the houses more or less look the same?)

Medusa was famous too.

Ah yeah because I definitely said people weren't allowed to do that thing that they're doing

Gentrification can refer to the character of a neighborhood (see definition 2 here). On top of that, "gentrified-looking" does not necessarily mean gentrified.

Decor? That can be burned? On my fortified brutalist concrete fortress? I dunno about that

Take a look at CCRI in Cranston RI

Not a bad analogy, like most pugs buildings also can't breath.