[MtnClimber]

Quite a clash between sanity and insanity.

[9YearLurker]

The Alabama building doesn’t seem like a great execution, but the concept is right.

[dangus]

The battle of Emuckfaw was started by Lt. Col. Fuddermucker.

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

But if you haven’t had a stroopwafel, they are recommended. Yum. Unlike the modern monstrosities Kunstler highlights....

[Dr. Sivana]

My old U of Chicago Campus is filled with conflicting styles. While Harper Library (where Free to Choose was partly filmed) and Ida Noyes (pictured below) are beautiful and warm, Pick Hall (pictured) is 1960s sterile, and the famous Regenstein Library (pictured) is straight on brutalist.

[drwoof]

Check out the De Young Museum in San Francisco, before and after. A huge middle finger to the decency of mankind, as intended.

[null and void]

[Robert A Cook PE]

Good find. Thank you!

[Sacajaweau]

Jefferson dictated the building designs for the Capitol.

And we should be consistent.

[Bigg Red]

I enjoyed this. Thanks for posting.

[metmom]

Nothing says *federal building* like architecture that looks like a prison.

[Hammerhead]

Look up Eastern Block Soviet-style brutalism.

Archetecture designed to DELIBERATLY kill the spirit of freedom.