FINALLY! A return to traditional, classical architecture in Federal Building.

I wouldn't be surprised. And screw energy efficiency and LEED certification. Wouldn't be surprised if they added gas lamps for effect.

It wont be done well and will end up looking cheap.

Are you talking buildings, or Melania, r2?

Robert A.M. Stern must be jumping for joy.

In his grave, yes, R4. Lame buildings at Yale barf.

His stuff at Yale is beautiful.

Thank goodness! I’m sick of all this ugly sterile modern shit that all looks the same.

Architectural brutalism is a fad. There is a reason traditional, classical architecture has endured for 2500 years.

I'd love for government buildings to be more beautiful, but it's fucking Trump. He'll fuck this up with thin slices of marble or some other crappy building technique he's developed.

Triumph of the Won't

Ah yes....the classical elegance of Trump Tower. Gilded knock-off faux French furniture.

OP, you may like the Schermerhorn Symphony Center in Nashville - it was only built in 2003 and looks as good as anything Victorian.

Where's Albert Speer when we need him? The right man for the new Republican Reich.

One hopes that with this edict, we shall soon see shining examples of classic architecture such as the Chicago Public Library.

Lots of it.

Lots. Of. It.

"But we want to make hideously provocative architectural statements that will challenge people's aesthetic sensibilities and elevate our status among architectural intellectuals!"

Where in the Jetson's did you ever see Ionic Columns? Or Caryatids?

Where is Boris Iofan when you need him?!

Ooh, that's pretty r17.

R12 - that Schermerhorn Symphony building looks like a post office. Massive fail.

R2 has it right. It's expensive to build those buildings with the same standards today. Inevitably, there will be 'nods' to Federalist architecture but it will just look cheap and tacky.

One of the selection panel members, a patriotic AMERICAN personage of style and discretion. .

Haha, R18. No, it is the Palace of the Soviets. They demolished the Cathedral of Christ the Savior and began building it in the 1930's. Then WWII came along and construction was suspended and the steel was repurposed for the war effort. After the war, the government restarted construction but realized that the location was too close to the Moscow River and would the ground would not support such a large building. So they cleared out the foundation and made the world's largest outdoor swimming pool.

I swam there many times in the 1980's. After the fall of the USSR, the church was given back the land and started raising money to rebuild the cathedral. It opened sometime in the early 2000's. This is what the new cathedral looks like:

Stern's still alive, r5.

Ramstern was a great band R22

Can't wait for the "Degenerate Art" exhibits.

Fucking bargain basement white trash hillbilly Nazis.

[quote]Fucking bargain basement white trash hillbilly Nazis.

Fucking elitist we-know-what's-good-for-you architects