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John F. Kennedy Federal Building

John Fitzgerald Kennedy Federal Building is a United States governmental office building located in the Government Center area of Boston, Massachusetts, adjacent to City Hall Plaza and diagonally across from Boston City Hall. An example of 1960s modern architecture, and designed by Walter Gropius and The Architects Collaborative with Samuel Glaser, it is a complex that consists of two offset 26-floor towers that sit…

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Boston, Boston, United States

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John F. Kennedy Federal Building in Boston, United States

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Walter Gropius

1883-1969 · Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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Walter Adolph Georg Gropius was a German-American architect and founder of the Bauhaus School, who is widely regarded as one of the pioneering masters of modernist architecture. He was a founder of Bauhaus in Weimar and taught there for several years, becoming known as a leading proponent of the International Style. G…

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Walter Gropius

studio · Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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