L'hôtel de ville de Boston (Boston City Hall) est un bâtiment construit de 1963 à 1968 pour servir d'hôtel de ville à l'administration municipale de Boston, la capitale de l'État américain du Massachusetts. D'un point de vue architectural, ce bâtiment dessiné par Kallmann McKinnell & Knowles est composé de neuf étages et s'inscrit dans le mouvement brutaliste.
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The Boston Planning & Development Agency, formerly the Boston Redevelopment Authority, is a Massachusetts public agency that serves as the municipal planning and development agency for Boston, working on both housing and commercial developments.
As an agency concerned with urban planning, the BPDA does not consider requests for zoning variances from individual property owners. These are heard by the city's own Zoning Board of Appeals, a seven-person body appointed by the Mayor of Boston.
Some consider the BPDA's roles as both real estate owner and developer, and approval authority over private development projects, to be a conflict of interest.
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The Brattle Street Church was a Congregational and Unitarian church on Brattle Street in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Brattle Street, which existed from 1694 to 1962, was a street in Boston, Massachusetts, located on the current site of City Hall Plaza, at Government Center. The street ran the short distance from Scollay Square to Faneuil Hall.
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Boston City Hall is the seat of city government of Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Surrounded by City Hall Plaza in the Government Center section of Downtown Boston, it includes the offices of the Mayor and the City Council. The building was designed by the architecture firms Kallmann McKinnell & Knowles and Campbell, Aldrich & Nulty, with LeMessurier Consultants as engineers. A major Brutalist-style building, City Hall is a designated Boston Landmark.
City Hall was proposed in 1956 as part of the Government Center development, following decades of efforts to replace Old City Hall. Acquiring the land and sufficient funding took half a decade, and KMK won a two-phase architectural design competition in 1962. Groundbreaking took place on September 18, 1963; the first occupants moved in during late 1967, and the building was decorated on February 11, 1969. In addition to governmental business, City Hall was used for a variety of events and exhibits. Over time, the building suffered from deferred maintenance, and Mayor Thomas Menino twice proposed replacing it in the 1990s and 2000s. City Hall underwent renovations starting in the 2010s.
The nine-story massing is split into three tiers, corresponding to the interior subdivisions, There are public areas on the first through fourth stories, elected officials' spaces on the fifth story, and nonpublic agencies at the sixth through ninth stories. The facade is made of brick below and concrete above, with entrances on the bottom three levels. There are protruding "hoods" around the fifth-floor windows, while the upper stories protrude outward, surrounding a central fourth-story courtyard. Inside are a concourse on the second story; a plaza lobby occupying the third and fourth stories; a council chamber, mayor's suite, and councilors' rooms on the fifth story; and offices elsewhere.
The building has received extensive commentary on its symbolism, usability, and architecture. Architects initially had mixed views of the design but praised the building after its completion. City Hall received the American Institute of Architects' 1969 Honor Award and was ranked in a 1976 poll of the United States' greatest buildings. Conversely, the public widely condemned it, and City Hall has appeared in several lists of the world's ugliest buildings. The design has influenced Brutalist architecture in Boston, along with similar buildings across the U.S. and worldwide.
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Boston is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Massachusetts. It serves as a cultural and financial center of New England, a region of the Northeastern United States. Boston has an area of 48.4 sq mi and a population of 675,647 as of the 2020 census, making it the third-most populous city in the Northeastern United States after New York City and Philadelphia. The larger Greater Boston metropolitan statistical area had a population of 4.9 million in 2023, making it the largest metropolitan area in New England and the eleventh-largest in the United States.
Boston was founded on Shawmut Peninsula in 1630 by English Puritan settlers, who named the city after the market town of Boston, Lincolnshire in England. During the American Revolution and Revolutionary War, Boston was home to several seminal events, including the Boston Massacre, the Boston Tea Party, Paul Revere's midnight ride, the Battle of Bunker Hill, and the Siege of Boston.
Following American independence from Great Britain, Boston played an important national role as a port, manufacturing hub, and education and culture center, and the city expanded significantly beyond the original peninsula by filling in land and annexing neighboring towns. Boston's many firsts include the nation's first public park, the first public school, and the first subway system.
Boston later emerged as a global leader in higher education and research and is the largest biotechnology hub in the world as of 2023. The city is a national leader in scientific research, law, medicine, engineering, and business. With nearly 5,000 startup companies, the city is considered a global pioneer in innovation, entrepreneurship, and artificial intelligence. Boston's economy is led by finance, professional and business services, information technology, and government. Boston households provide the highest average rate of philanthropy in the nation as of 2013, and the city's businesses and institutions rank among the top in the nation for environmental sustainability and new investment.
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En novembre 2008, un vote effectué en ligne par les lecteurs du site VirtualTourist.com place l'hôtel de ville de Boston en première position des édifices les plus laids du monde, juste devant la tour Montparnasse.