Oh, this is going to be old-school fun. The Dallas Morning News editorial page on Monday forthrightly said, as is its wont, that maybe, possibly, Dallas should consider demolishing City Hall. Just a thought, because, you know, the building is kinda not great.
The debate over City Hall’s potential future kicked off online at the start of the month after The News reported that the building, designed by the famed architect I.M. Pei, was about $100 million behind in deferred maintenance and, essentially, on the verge of being a dump.
The Dallas Landmark Commission wants the wedge-shaped concrete and glass structure, which sits in the middle of a scarcely used plaza/solar oven, designated a historic landmark. It was completed back in 1977, in the mists of time. Architecture experts are appalled that anyone would even think of tearing it down, and commenters on social media appear divided between the appalled and those who believe the building is, in a word, fugly…