[neb52]

I like the huge airy open expanse of classical design. There something about it that feels natural, like it should be there and always has.

[SunkenCiv]

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[Blind Eye Jones]

They should built Court Houses in the style of the DNA helix so that one can symbolically look to our physical makeup with the hope that man can find and correct the genes responsible for some of our social problems. One thing the article fails to note is that white is always the colour of classical architecture; perhaps, for those with an eye to the different colours of race, it means that it is not a white man’s world anymore.

[Grimmy]

In such things as art, lit and architecture, I read “modern” as trendy and trendy as trash. I don’t follow the yarts much at all in any of their forms, but what I do notice of the “modern” is either ugly and pretentious or fragile, ugly and pretentious.

[aruanan]

Architectural classicism, its advocates insist, is deeply ingrained in our cultural psyche and therefore should be the style of choice, especially for culturally or politically significant buildings.

Or you can come up with Borgian crap like the Regenstein Library at the University of Chicago:

[Daffynition]

The last I knew, Thomas Gordon Smith was selected as chief architect by the GSA and he is a classicist. Some of the older classic designs:

Newer architecture for courthouses:

Some, as reported in the WSJ, were critical of the appointment: Others are worried federal architecture will lose its cutting-edge focus. Henry Smith-Miller, of Smith-Miller + Hawkinson, a New York firm, which designed a border station under construction in Champlain, N.Y., said he finds Mr. Smith's appointment "deeply troubling." He called Mr. Smith's traditional views "anti-progressive." It "picks up the imperial nature of Roman architecture, which was in service to the empire rather than service to democracy," says Mr. Smith-Miller.