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For anyone else interested, here's a picture: https://c.o0bg.com/rf/image_960w/Boston/2011-2020/2016/09/07/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/Boston-City-Hall-Plaz

• kofejnik 10y ago
  this is fugly even by Soviet standards, esp. constrasted to e.g. this one in Moscow: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Sisters_(Moscow)#/media/File:Moscow,_Dushkin%27s_Tower.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Sisters_(Moscow)#/media/...
  • ghaff 10y ago
    The Seven Sisters aren't representative of ugly mass of concrete Soviet-era architecture though. I'm not sure I'd call them beautiful but they're rather distinctive and they don't jump out as particularly ugly. Wikipedia claims they're a combination of Russian Baroque and Gothic styles but someone with more architectural background than I may have a better classification. As the Wikipedia article also notes the Seven Sisters have considerable similarities to icons like the Wrigley Building in Chicago. (Not sure I buy a couple of the other comparisons.)
    • wott 10y ago
      But Russians sometimes call the "ugly mass of concrete Soviet-era architecture" French style... And well, as a French, I can't claim they are wrong about that :-/
      • ghaff 10y ago
        No, Le Corbusier and all that.
        • wott 10y ago
          Yes, that accounts for one part, the one with ideas behind, a style, a urban and a life project. And then there is the other part, the loosely inspired, derived copies with no real plan. Not sure which part brought the worst failures :-)
        • abrowne 10y ago
          (Who was Swiss.)
          • ghaff 10y ago
            Who lived and worked in Paris for most of his life.