Review: Why Are Federal Buildings So Ugly?
Developers, please feel free to tear down nearly any building erected during the 1960s and ’70s in the United States. Capital Brutalism, an exhibit on view through February 17 at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., amply demonstrates why.
Brutalist buildings are unornamented concrete hulks. Perhaps the most iconic is the J. Edgar Hoover FBI Building, declared the ugliest building in the U.S. and the second ugliest in the world in a Buildworld survey. As documented in the exhibition, our nation’s capital is pockmarked with many other Brutalist piles.
The Brutalist concrete behemoth home of the Department of Housing and Urban Development arose as part of an “urban renewal” project that displaced some 1,500 businesses and 23,000 residents, comprising primarily African American and immigrant families. Yes: T
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