Once in a while, I like to go to an empty floor of the building and eat lunch. Today, I thought a lot about these protrusions on the roof of City Hall and the federal building next to it. You mostly can’t see them from the street.
I guess they have some industrial building systems purpose, but why do they have to stick out like that? I imagine there could be some mechanical or ventilation reason, but what is it? And/or we’re they afterthoughts? They’re so incredibly incongruous to the forms that it’s strange to seem them on buildings oddly built around specific aesthetic principles, especially City Hall.