Kenmore Square loses a bagel place

Actually with the exception of the pure International Style [circa mid 50's] when there was almost nothing being built in Boston*1 -- the city has more than its share of the totally overused term Worldclass Architecture

In the late 19th Century the American Institute of Architects surveyed their members for the Top Ten Buildings up to that date. They repeated the survey on the tern of the Millenium. Only bwo buildings made both lists -- both with Boston connections: the US Capitol by Boston's Charles Bulfinch (born August 8, 1763, Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony [U.S.]—died April 4, 1844, Boston, Massachusetts) and Trinity Church by Henry Hobson Richardson -- Bostonian by choice (born September 29, 1838, Priestley Plantation, Louisiana, U.S.—died April 27, 1886, Brookline)

Anyway, McKim's Boston Public Library should still be on the Worldclass List as well as the nearly a century later Henry Cobb's 200 Clarendon [nee John Hancock Tower].and the earlier Hancock with the Red Sox weather light

Many people would also include in a Top xxyy List: Faneuil Hall [Bullfinch], the original Quincy Market [Alexander Parris], and improvements, the original [Ami B. Young] and improved with a impressive tower Custom House [Peabody & Stearns], Old City Hall [Gridley J. F. Bryant, Arthur D. Gilman]
Samuel H. Stearns' New Old South Church, Old North [Christ's Church], South Station [both the Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge original and the remake of today]., Fenway Park, Harvard Stadium,

A few more from various periods that should be considered as important works: The Cunard Building, State Street Block @ McKinley Square [GF Bryant], The Flour Exchange, Chadwick Lead Works, the USM Building (George W. Fuller and Parker, Thomas & Rice) , the original Federal Reserve Bank [now a hotel after some alterations], the original New England Telephone and Telegraph Building on Franklin Street, Hugh Stubbins New Federal Reserve Bank, Commonwealth Pier, Park Street Church, Fenway Studios [Parker, Thomas & Rice], Colonial Theatre (Clarence Blackall), Paramount Theatre, MFA [original and Foster & Partners remake] Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Symphony Hall, Original and subsequent additions to Christian Science Church complex, the remnant building of the original MIT complex [originally the New England Society of Natural History now Restoration Hardware today] on Boylston St designed by William Gibbons Preston, the nearby original Ritz Carlton Hotel (Strickland, Blodget & Law Architects,) and then the recent Millennium Tower (Blake Middleton of Handel Architects) grafted on to 1911
Architect Daniel H. Burnham's masterpiece the former Filene's and the currently under construction One Dalton by Henry Cobb of Pei Cobb Freed & Partners and Cambridge Seven Associates

Across the river the Frank Gerry Stata Center at MIT is on the list along Harvard's Chapel and Memorial Hall, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts [Le Corbusier's only building in the US]. and the "Infinite Corridor" MIT main building of today [1916 William Welles Bosworth.], MIT's Charles Hayden Library

Way out in the burbs there is the original mein Zuhause das Bauhaus of Bauhaus founding architect Walter Gropius

and even and more and more could be added -- some of the architects of the above have been left to the reader -- just do some homework before pontificating

1) even the pure International style exists in the Boston Area although you need to go to Harvard and MIT in Cambridge to find it -- e.g. Eero Saarinen's Kresge Auditorium and MIT Chapel,, Baker House (Alvar Aalto)
Boston tore down the Travelers Building on High Street where 125 High is today