In a city where architectural bombast has often been favored over quality, the White House has stood apart for its grace and ...

Justin Shubow and Carlo Ratti will debate the recent mandate to design civic buildings in a classical style. (Courtesy National Civic Art Society) “Making Federal Architecture Beautiful Again: A ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The order directs federal building in Washington to follow “classical” styles, such as that of the Treasury Building. - (Pete ...

Architecture inevitably entails large expenditures of money, and where there is money, there is politics. What might seem like strictly stylistic affinities are rarely only that. For patrons and ...

Architectural rendering of the Grand Penn Community Alliance's proposal for the classical façade at Penn Station's 7th Avenue entrance (all images courtesy Grand Penn Community Alliance) The Grand ...

(CNN) — President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday that mandates all federal buildings “embrace classical architecture.” “In the District of Columbia, classical architecture shall be ...

My previous piece for The American Conservative concerned the mayhem postwar “urban renewal” wrought in Washington, D.C.’s southwest quadrant. A conspicuous feature of that mayhem is the Robert C.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One of President Donald Trump’s final actions in his first administration was a last-ditch attempt to confront the impermanence of ...

Since humans first abandoned their nomadic ways and started building permanent settlements, architecture has been a powerful tool for communicating authority and ideologies. Rulers across millennia ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Preview this article 1 min Federal buildings "should ...

The Fast Company Impact Council is an invitation-only membership community of top leaders and experts who pay dues for access to peer learning, thought leadership, and more. BY William H. Dodge When ...