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In 1962, Boston was in trouble. Residents, manufacturers, and businesses were fleeing the city, leav ing behind acres of empty lots and boarded-up buildings. Residents needed a “new Boston,” and that year the city launched a rare open design competition in search of a new city hall that would symbolize—and help achieve—this rebirth. The two-stage, anonymous competition drew 256 entries, but in the end, the jury unanimously chose a bold, cutting-edge, and controversial design that was the work of “three young architects, two of them foreigners.” This concrete, Brutalist structure would become, David Dillon wrote, “one of the most remarkable debuts in American architectural history” and “arguably the great building of twentieth-century Boston,” according to Douglass Shand-Tucci’s definitive history, Built in Boston.

These cutouts are conveniently accompanied by a pre-made shadow layer.

Can architecture help inspire new ideas? That is the question Hollwich Kushner hopes to answer with the newly completed Pennovation Center.

  This article is part of a series that that tells the story of how Source — Architizer’s new m arketplace for building products — helps architects create brilliant buildings. HEAD THIS WAY For more information on the platform. By now, you will likely be familiar with our popular series “Rendering to Reality,” which looks at…

Hadid’s prismatic intervention perches precariously like a vast iceberg atop an old fire station.

A typical MIR artist is "a bit emo yet analytical, very stubborn and quite introverted."

Hernandez's visions conjure simultaneous feelings of awe and discomfort.

Construction has begun on a new headquarters for the Chinese fashion company Xinhee in the southeast ern city of Xiamen. If the renderings are anything to go by, Xinhee’s competitors will soon be MAD with envy! For this project, the Chinese architecture firm MAD decided to follow the methods of the fashion industry, taking the human…

The Columbia University Medical Center’s new state-of-the-art medical and graduate education buildin g — the Roy and Diana Vagelos Education Center — now looms large over the neighborhood. The 14-story glass and concrete tower, located in Washington Heights in Northern Manhattan, was designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro in collaboration with Gensler and forms an extraordinary…