This brewing conflict isn’t merely aesthetic. It represents fundamentally different conceptions of how architecture should ...

Opened in 1975, the J. Edgar Hoover Building’s brutalist concrete facade has been referred to as an accurate architectural portrait of its namesake, and has long been earmarked for renovation.

Simonson noted: "The brutalist style of Boston City Hall by Kallmann McKinnell & Knowles presents a completely different architecture of the Colonial-era buildings that neighbor it. It was and ...

Nor put into the building any fixtures whatsoever as “fixtures.” Eliminate the separations and separate joints. Classic architecture was all fixation-of-the-fixture. Yes, entirely so.

ROME — For centuries, historians and architecture critics have been embarrassed by buildings like San Giorgio in Velabro. The exterior of the medieval church is inoffensive enough: trim portico ...