Talk:Boston City Hall

message: I'm wondering about a citation for the idea that La Tourette was a model for Boston City Hall. I've done some research on this question and can't find anything in the architects' own words suggesting this. Does anyone know where this idea originated? ADF119 (talk) 14:13, 28 October 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Citation added Hal (talk) 04:28, 24 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: la Tourette was a huge influence of the so called brutalist architecture and its architect Le corbusier a living legend. The architects of boston city hall surely knew it intimately and you find many common elements. to find them compare floorplans, materials, details, and so on. what the architects themselves say is of lesser importance, theyre not paid for talking.80.108.36.246 (talk) 20:29, 5 September 2013 (UTC)

text: Architects, artists, poets, and other such creative types rarely cite their sources... Possibly true, but irrelevant, given that Wikipedia is supposed to cite secondary sources, and the parties you're listing are primary. "(O)riginality" is seen as the true sign of creative genius. Probably because there has been so little of it since WWI one is tempted to say, there has been none.Hal (talk) 04:28, 24 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  the claim that Boston City Hall was inspired in part by Le Corbusier's La Tourette monastery 

message: The Positive reaction section is unencyclopaediac and over-the-top in its language, using biased language such as "representative of the acclaim", "renewed  recognition", etc. The section reads like a press release rather than a serious and credible analysis. 195.211.227.117 (talk) 15:44, 19 June 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Agree. M2545 (talk) 18:20, 19 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Point of View

message: I removed the . This subsection doesn’t really include interpretations of—which is to say, opinions about—the design of the building, but rather statements about what the designers intended to convey. Assumedly, these would be verifiable; for the most part, however, they are not supported by citations, hence the  (I changed it from , since there currently are a few citations). 
:Quick and Dirty User Account (talk) 08:52, 30 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  “Design” subsection maintenance tag 

message: How does including a list of the mayors and city council members add to this article? Unless someone objects, I propose to add a sentence to the intro describing the building's roles as the location of the mayor's offices and the meeting place for the city council, and then remove the "Government" section entirely. Rks13 (talk) 16:11, 30 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Government section 

message: I find it astonishing that a group like California Home + Design or any other aesthete wanna-be can have the audacity to deny architectural history. The Brutalist architectural movement was very much real and as valid as any in history. Many legendary architects such as I.M. Pei and Tadao Ando designed significant works in the brutalist style. Brutalist architecture is a window into a significant part of modern architecture and urban planning. Its examples throughout the country and the world should be celebrated and studied. Boston City Hall actually has a tremendous amount of flare for a brutalist piece. It is no more or less significant than Rudolph Hall, Yale’s Art and Architecture Building, or any number of Le Corbusier's buildings in France. No one would consider blowing them up simply because they don’t agree with, or dislike the aesthetic. It is as much a part of the character of downtown Boston as the Chrysler building or the UN complex is of that part of NYC. Boston City Hall is part of our cultural heritage and should be celebrated and protected as such.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mardak63 (talk • contribs) 01:09, 15 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Denying Architectural History 

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message: I tried to add a positive quote to balance the negative one in the Reception section.  See the edit history. But I couldn't get the positive one to appear near the top of that section.  Can someone tell me what I did wrong?
NewtonCourt (talk) 19:58, 10 July 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Help in adding quote box 

message: Which of these images should be the lead image for the article?
File:Boston City Hall - Boston, MA - DSC04704 (cropped).JPG|Ground level front facade
File:Boston City Hall aerial 2019 P1020786.jpg|Ariel view
--Pine (✉) 00:54, 6 September 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: *I agree that the 1973 aerial view gives a good sense of the plaza, but I think there's room for both it and the 2019 aerial, which shows that there's a courtyard (which I didn't even know existed). Beyond My Ken (talk) 15:58, 7 September 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: * Sure: I think both are fine in the gallery.  I just mean that the 2019 photo wouldn't even be my 1st choice for the lead image among aerial photos in the article. --JBL (talk) 16:06, 7 September 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lead image for the article