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Early plan for Government Center a bit different than what we actually got
By adamg on Wed, 01/19/2011 - 7:03am
Utile posts an image from a 1959 plan for a Scollay Square replacement that would have started pretty much at Old City Hall and which would have involved a series of low-slung buildings:
In spatial design, as well as building massing, and no less in spatial and massing composition we were very mindful of weaving into the existing social and physical texture of this part of Boston.
Via Boston Reddit.
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wow
As much as I'm a fan of Brutalist architecture, I wish we would have ended up with this.
Fan of Brutalist
Fan of Brutalist architecture? Yeah, I love to feel like I'm in some backwards ass Soviet bloc country, where the government builds structures that crush your spirit on purpose.
Be careful what you hope for
It would have wiped out the Sears building that is one the features
of the area that is still pretty good looking.
Actually...
It looks like it would have wiped out almost everything between School Street and the current City Hall as well as the John Adams Courthouse. The development proposed along New Congress St looks a little better than what's there today though.
All things considered
I prefer what we actually have.
Doesn't look that different.
check out the aerial view from over Quincy Market. It looks like the main differences would be rebuilding that area between old city hall and Government center, and building on that strip of land that now has the holocaust memorial and bars
Looks like the plans for the Seaport
Except that the Seaport plan has more traffic lanes.