The General Services Administration’s briefly available list of DC federal buildings it hoped to sell included many designed in the brutalist style characteristic of many local federal structures.
Some buildings don’t just blend into the city. Thanks to their unique architecture, they are impossible to ignore — and can ...
Love him or hate him, Donald Trump has a point: brutalism is “unpopular.” Last month the president and former luxury real estate developer issued an executive order calling for future federal ...
Few architectural styles provoke as much debate as Brutalism. Once seen as stark and imposing, its unapologetic use of raw concrete and geometric forms is now experiencing a renaissance. Renewed ...
The film "The Brutalist" suggests architecture is about the imposition of one person's vision - but in fact, most buildings are the result of meetings where community residents, designers, lawyers and ...
There’s a reason God created dynamite. The brutalist federal buildings that have blighted Washington, D.C., for decades deserve the same fate as Carthage after the Third Punic War, and the nation’s ...
The Department of Housing and Urban and Development announced that it is leaving its headquarters in Washington for a space in northern Virginia. Getty Images There’s a reason God created dynamite.
Brutalism has a bad name. That may be, in part, because it is a bad name. This polarizing architectural style of the 1950s and '60s is the subject of the the film "The Brutalist," nominated for 10 ...
An image of the Hôtel du Lac building in Tunis has been edited to read "No to demolition" in Arabic by artists Mouna Jemal Siala and Manna Jmal (image courtesy of the artists) Designed by Italian ...
In Providence, a small number of its Brutalist Buildings are still standing. Brutalism, a style of architecture popularized in the 1950s and 60s, is fading in many parts of the country. In Providence, ...
The FBI is relocating its headquarters from the J. Edgar Hoover Building to the Ronald Reagan Building, after decades in one of D.C.’s most polarizing examples of brutalist architecture.