Posted Jan 16, 2012, 6:02 PM
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Originally Posted by turigamot
Some brutalism is good. Some brutalism is bad. Protect the former, axe the latter if the time comes where the need warrants the land be put to better use. As should be done with any architectural style. The church in DC is terrible (along with the FBI headquarters and a few others). The HUD building, and the metro stations, however, are not.
It isn't an all-or-nothing issue.
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Wait, you're using the J. Edgar Hoover building as an example of bad Brutalist architecture?? 
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