Boston City Hall. It was built 1968 and is an example of Brutalist style.

On every list of ugly buildings in Boston, one in particular usually lands at the top. You know which one we’re talking about. It was built in 1968 and has been widely hated ever since: Boston City Hall. Its style is “brutalist,” which looks exactly like it sounds: big, blockish, hulking. Basically, a fortress of concrete.

There are constant cries to tear it down. And there’s not much love for other Boston buildings from that era, like the 1966 JFK Federal Building and the 1972 Johnson Building addition to the Boston Public Library. But what if these homely structures are actually tomorrow’s historic architecture? What if we just don’t appreciate them yet, and later generations will embrace them even though we think they’re monstrosities?

WBUR’s Sacha Pfeiffer tackles those issues with today’s guests and asks them what, ultimately, makes a building worth saving.

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