while i certainly wouldn't say that chicago's city hall is in the same league as say san fran's or philly's in the beauty department, it's still pretty sweet from a "massively over-scaled and decidedly inhuman monument to governmental authority" perspective. this beast is just massive, taking up a full city block in the heart of downtown.
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http://suites.files.wordpress.com/20...-city-hall.gif
and here's the annex structure, the daley center, built in the 60s after the chicago/cook county bureaucracy outgrew the original building.
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http://www.som.com/resources/categor...1_21605883.jpg
i find the daley center to be perhaps the most beautiful modernist skyscraper anywhere in the world, but i understand i have unusual tatses, so don't bother telling me that i'm stupid for having mad love for "just another stupid old boring black box". the daley center is simply magical to me.