[ransomnote]

I think leftists have eroded the character of our civic architecture for the same reason the Soviets did - do away with tradition and history and trudge along to the factory, comarade!

[Chauncey Gardiner]

Not acting like a president on his way out the door...

[stanne]

Reading later. Very interesting

We were watching a movie there was an outside stairway - marble with huge stone pillar railing. The kids sighed, ‘why don’t they construct like that any more.

We were talking about Radio City Music Hall. The kids looked up the origin of the name. My Great grandfather didn’t the ornamental plastering on it. Ditto the museum of natural history on Central Park west

Grandfather worked on the Chrysler building putting up the gargoyles.

Jackie O worked to have the NY Historical Society declare some structures preserved as landmarks. They wanted to take down Grand Central Railway Station. Nope. The ceiling is constellations. Backlit.

Going to mass here in the is like visiting the inside of a rocket ship though some of the old churches are great

I’ve been all over Europe-and much of New York visiting churches The most beautiful catholic church I’ve ever Been in is in Macon Georgia. Go figure.

[Henry Cavendish]

This is great. No more ugly cement cubes.

[algore]

I read a really great article about this a few years ago, Unfortunately I cannot find it.

But I can agree this is one of the few cases where diversity is good and healthy.

[Fester Chugabrew]

A timely and necessary move. I hope a good many states and municipalities follow the lead, and bring back statues as well. The nihilist movement should be shown the door.

[Fester Chugabrew]

Saw parts of Boston and Denver downtown 2018 that were visual cacophonies.

[Albion Wilde]

Many of these new Federal buildings are not even visibly identifiable as civic buildings. For example, GSA selected an architect to design the San Francisco Federal Building who describes his designs as “art-for-art’s-sake” architecture, intended primarily for architects to appreciate. While elite architects praised the resulting building, many San Franciscans consider it one of the ugliest structures in their city.

[Albion Wilde]

GSA selected a modernist architect to design Salt Lake City’s new Federal courthouse. The architectural establishment and its professional organizations praised his unique creation, but many local residents considered it ugly and inconsistent with its surroundings.

[Albion Wilde]

In Orlando, Florida, a coalition of judges, court employees, and civic leaders opposed GSA’s preferred modernist design for the George C. Young Federal Courthouse. They believed it lacked the dignity a Federal courthouse should embody. The GSA nonetheless imposed this design over their objections.