Designed by Kallmann, McKinnell and Knowles; completed 1969 Boston, Massachusetts The Boston City Hall is a modern architectural icon that has served and identified the citizens of Boston since 1969. It is the product of the Boston architectural firm Kallmann, McKinnell and Knowles, now Kallmann, McKinnell and Wood, and a national design competition held in 1962. The site is in the center of the historic Boston urban fabric in a plaza created by architect I.M.Pei. The trapezoidal site, comparable in scale to St. Mark’s Square in Venice, provides one of the earliest modern exterior public spaces in a large American city. Gerhard Kallmann and Michael McKinnell, along with Edward Knowles, formed their office with this project. Kallmann, the eldest member of the team, German born and English educated, provided the philosophical expressions of the theory and the design ideas. McKinnell, English born and educated, has shared Kallmann’s inclusive and sensitive approach to architecture for all...