New City Hall design is chosen.

It is selected from among 256 entries and announced at a press conference at the Museum of Fine Arts. The design was created by Columbia University professors Gerhard Kallman and Michael McKinnell, who never before designed a building. The design is criticized a few days later by architect Edward Durrell Stone, who declares, “[It looks] like the crate that Faneuil Hall came in.” The building is subsequently praised by many architects, though reviled by the public.