The shape of the Boston City Hall popularized the phenotype based clearly on La Tourette, that was to be encountered in similar shapes the world over (#LaTouretteType): It can be read as a temple missing its gable.
https://sosbrutalism.org/cms/15891257
Photos: Boston City Archives 2013 (CC BY 2.0) / Ernst Halberstadt / U.S. National Archives (CC BY 2.0) / Ron Gilbert 1985 (CC BY-ND 2.0) / Bill Lebovic / Library of Congress 1981 (public domain) / Peter Miller 2013 (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) / See-ming Lee 2010 (CC BY-SA 2.0) / Gunnar Klack 2018 (CC BY-SA 2.0)
This building takes a lot of shit, and honestly it deserves it – I don’t know how on earth they managed to make brutalism both tediously historicist and busy