The Radical Architectural Agenda

We've got to stop the radical Architects who want to make deviant buildings like this acceptable to society. The Globe is running a story today about the movement to make Boston's City Hall a landmark.

Yup, you read that right... a freakin' landmark!! So now this Brutalist waste of valuable real estate is on par with Fenway Park and the Old State House?

According to City Council President Maureen Feeney, not only is the building deserving, but it's signifigance is beyond the grasp of Regular Folks like... well... Regular Folks:

"There is little debate that its 200 million pounds of concrete and steel is a great physical and defining presence in Government Center," she wrote. "In history and architecture, its national awards stand as credentials to its significance as a masterpiece, albeit a rather less than aesthetically pleasing one to many an untrained eye."

I may be "untrained," but I know a useless, out-of-place building when I see one. I don't know what's more offensive, the movement to make it a landmark, or the additude of people in power who back the "elites" for the sake fo sounding smart.

I live in Maureen Feeney's district, so I called her office to try to talk to her. Of course, because she is the council's president, she's out a lot and wasn't available to speak with me, but a staffer did try to defuse her comments.

"There was no intention to be offensive... The comments were made with an element of humor... She would not set out to offend people without an architechtural degree, of whom she is one."

Of course she wasn't trying to be "offensive," but she came off that way. I understand where she's coming from with this. She's the head of the council now and all of the Big Wigs want her in their corner. She's rubbing elbows with the movers and shakers in every area and the folks who design the buildings in our city are a haughty, tight-knit group indeed... And since they know what they're talking about when it comes to "significant" buildings, then their opinions must be right! Right?

Ugh.