A couple weeks ago I visited City Hall. The building was designed by architect Arne Jacobsen, known quite well for modern Danish design (you'll get the idea, http://www.arne-jacobsen.com/neobuilder.20020207200336520000001846981104.html).

City Hall is kind of an eyesore, I just try to ignore it; marble exterior, rectangular in shape, with a phallic tower just sort of shooting out, while on the inside it's all wood. He did however, have an amazing adeptness for natural light. Anyway, no one cares about my naive attempt at explaining this.

The tower is very tall. The view is good. You can see where I live.





and inside City Hall...






Oh, the photo above is the "Wedding Room" (where you get married, quick, and then have your portrait taken for the record against this wall- I want to just have a collection of portraits against this wall). No matter how expensive the wood was, the room is wood-paneled not unlike many a ranch-style home basement circa 1970. No matter how respected in architecture Jacobsen is/was, he still painted atrocious bouquets of flowers with ivy borders, not unlike a tacky stencil, on the wood-paneling (each wall having a season theme, here we have "Summertime"). Tacky but retro and so 1944.