Architects debate the merits of preserving D.C.'s Brutalist landmarks as the federal government considers selling off ...
The General Services Administration’s briefly available list of DC federal buildings it hoped to sell included many designed in the brutalist style characteristic ... CIA facility in its rush to ...
Later on, the call for a “new monumentality” and Le Corbusier’s towering influence led him to erect brutalist buildings in concrete textured with vertical “corduroy” striations. These include ...
and government buildings. When architectural trends were turning all touchy-feely and old-world-revivalist around the 1980s, the brutalist look was too harsh and abstract, and the style fell out ...
By Walker Mimms Now that the White House has decreed that all new government structures be made in a classical style, let’s cue up the original film of buildings and hubris — King Vidor’s ...
The news also, coincidentally, comes as the Trump administration is reviving its efforts to promote classical architecture over Brutalist designs for government buildings. Last year, Adams ...
Washington DC has a large number of significant brutalist buildings. Here, architectural photographer Ty Cole picks eight of the most interesting. Largely built in the 1960s and 70s as the federal ...
given that it is mostly associated with 1960s-era government and university buildings, hotbeds of resistance to the MAGA program. Hollywood loves “The Brutalist” — or at least it loves ...
Once seen as an unapproachable Brutalist fortress, the building has been reimagined ... as a symbol of open and progressive municipal government while addressing long-standing issues of ...