Michael McKinnell, the architect best known for designing the brutalist landmark Boston City Hall, has died after testing positive for covid-19.

The 84-year-old design director of Kallmann McKinnell & Wood Architects was taken into hospital two weeks ago after being taken ill. He also had pneumonia.

His widow, Stephanie Mallis, also an architect who is having to self isolate and could not be with him, said her husband declined a respirator, instead asking for hospice care. In a moving interview with the Boston Globe she described how he spent his final hours designing his final resting place which would overlook the Atlantic in the garden of their Rockport home.

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