ARCHITECTURE ; A new perspective on City Hall : Exhibition invites a reconsideration of the building

From: The Boston Globe | Date: May 24, 2008| Author: Robert Campbell | Copyright information

A fine new exhibition reminds us how much we'd miss Boston City Hall if we let Mayor Menino get rid of it.

The mayor, you'll recall, announced last year that he hated City Hall and planned to sell it and its plaza for private development, then build a new City Hall somewhere else.

The exhibition, to say the least, opposes that idea. The title tells you so immediately: "Designing the Great Building of 20th- Century Boston."

The show is at Wentworth Institute on Huntington A...