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| | City Hall Plaza in Boston, MA - AOL City Guide |
 | | When Boston resolved to replace Scollay Square (a seedy "sailor's paradise" teeming with gambling dens, tattoo parlors, shooting galleries and strip clubs) with a professional complex called Government Center, the city hired the celebrated firm of I.M. Pei and Associates to engineer the transformation. |
 | | A disciple of Walter Gropius, Pei was inspired by the challenge of harmonizing gargantuan new structures with the comparatively quaint historic buildings of the neighborhood. |
 | | Though City Hall was to be the centerpiece of Pei's vision, its design was delegated to the firm of Kallman, McKimmel and Knowles, who won a national competition with their plans for a monumental structure, to be built in a style aptly known as Brutalist Modern. |
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