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Reply to "So much for "vibrant" --boring apt. building architecture going up right and left on the Avenues"
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Brutalist architecture has always been ugly[/quote] 99% of the buildings people claim are Brutalist are not Brutalist. That word has lost all meaning nowadays.[/quote] +1 Not to mention, there are quite a few beautiful brutalist buildings in DC, to say nothing of our iconic brutalist metro stations. It's a very good thing indeed that there isn't a Committee of Concerned Citizens Who Are Totally Experts on Architecture who can impose their will on developments. The small-minded posters on this thread have a provincial view on what constitutes "boring architecture."[/quote] I'd argue the opposite of "quite a few." Most of the brutalist architecture in DC is indeed unattractive and boring, looking like soviet bunkers - and/or are a maintenance nightmare like the Watergate, but there is a small handful that are more aesthetic. Source: I worked in architecture for 25 years.[/quote]
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