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2021-02-26 Home Front: Politix

President Joe Biden revokes Trump order limiting federal buildings to classical, traditional architecture

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Posted by Fred 2021-02-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 C'mon, periwinkle, if it was good enough for the USSR it should be good enough for us. /s

Posted by Glenmore 2021-02-26 01:50|| 2021-02-26 01:50|| Front Page Top

#2 Architects can be amazingly tone deaf. Here in the middle of Tornado Alley the "decoration" in front of the new library is a large hollow wire cone holding a whirlpool of pages -- a tornado. How *ugh* cute. I really hope the next microburst tears this hubris into tatters.

Posted by magpie 2021-02-26 10:36|| 2021-02-26 10:36|| Front Page Top

#3 Great - more eyesores like Boston City Hall...

Posted by Raj 2021-02-26 10:46|| 2021-02-26 10:46|| Front Page Top

#4 Brutalist? Too easy and ultimately too white. Look for architectural designs that follow mud and stick huts from Sub-Saharan Africa. From the 'all cultures are equal' crowd.

Posted by Bob Grorong1136 2021-02-26 11:23|| 2021-02-26 11:23|| Front Page Top

#5 Absolutely everything Trump ever did must be undone and memory-holed.

Of course, the next non-dem prez can undo all of Joe. Maybe there's a lesson there, for the legislative branch?

Posted by Bobby 2021-02-26 11:41|| 2021-02-26 11:41|| Front Page Top

#6 Brutalist or Stalinist?

Posted by Abu Uluque 2021-02-26 13:31|| 2021-02-26 13:31|| Front Page Top

#7 /\ "Distinction semper in promptu habent" (A distinction without a difference).

Posted by Besoeker 2021-02-26 13:35|| 2021-02-26 13:35|| Front Page Top

#8 Union rules?

Posted by Clem 2021-02-26 13:38|| 2021-02-26 13:38|| Front Page Top

#9 Like a cooling tower?

Posted by Frank G 2021-02-26 14:09|| 2021-02-26 14:09|| Front Page Top

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