Lets tap into this pool of...
Lets tap into this pool of knowledge.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brutalism
How can the people of Boston
expect good government, when their civil servants have to spend 8-10 hours a day in a building like the one below. The building below would actually discourage me from taking a job with Boston's city government.
"That's where you'll find me,
among lovers, bugs and bees,
Yeah, I love that dirty water,
Oh, oh, Boston, you're my home."
I know its a depression, Boston, but that's all the more reason to do a major public works project to put Bostonians back to work. Don't dig any more tunnels, for gosh sakes, just build some good buildings for your civil servants to perform their best inside.
Hire Renzo Piano.
Or better yet, hire Koen de Winter. I believe he has finished digging out enough from the flood, that he would be ready to entertain again the architecting of a major city building.
To my knowledge, the only...
To my knowledge, the only Brutalist building in town...outside concrete slab warehouses and the Corbusier/Bauhaus influenced community college. Rather ordinary looking. Has nice details, like the irregularly spaced, flat topped striations that concave inside the groove...fantastic effect! Spans the entire height of the building, inside and out. This building fits the forward thinking, utopian vision of Brutalism, but the execution leaves me unconvinced. It replaced the grand old courthouse pictured below. I do give it credit for anticipating the explosive growth of our community and being able to support that. Very low maintenance compared to the older Victorian building.
I usually play as Alex, when I'm going...
...to save shopping center:
http://www.totallyspies.com/_upload/_module/uk/_complex/gam_mallbrawl/
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