Philly City Hall overrated....?? y'all smokin that good stuff up in the Badlands of North Philly or something.
It's not just it's massive-ness, and masonry, and the carvings, and the sculptures of the 4 known "races" of the world, and the fact it took 30 yrs to build, but its placement perfectly at the center of William Penn's grid city block design, it's placement looking down the Parkway to the Art Museum and vice versa, and the fact ol' Billy Penn gets to overlook his city forever and ever high atop, and then the whole "you can't build taller than City Hall" agreement that held for much of the 20th century. And that bright yellow clock at night... and now also, the area surrounding it has been completed re-done and is worthy of City Hall's broad shoulders. Terrific history. An American treasure.
Whether it looks like a prick or not, it's ballsy. And the best (in my opinion - of course).
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Now that ........is a City Hall !
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