re: I just realized how much Brutalist architecture is seeping in Washington DC

Communists love them some bare concrete "frick you" style structures. Whether Soviet Union, North Korea, or Washington DC, that shite is like flowers and rainbows to communists

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South Side Chicago would be more fitting and even perhaps useful.

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I have a place in west loop near the pink line.

Chicago is too nice of a town for them IMO, although I don’t spend any time on the south side.

Chicago has amazing architecture.

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I work in that building and I love it.

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Very cool. I worked there for a few years as well; I loved the cracked glass elevators. Ended up moving to the 57 Center on 6th avenue right next to the Duquesne Club.

I remember when they were building the place when I was a kid. It was a big deal. Apparently Phillip Johnson got into huge arguments with the PPG folks about how high the ceilings should be and almost shut down the project. Johnson won out to the betterment of the building. The PPG folks wanted 8ft. ceilings so the could get more floors in the building. 8ft. ceilings in an office... that would have been awful.

Looks like buildings from the USSR.

I always ascribed the architectural style of the Forrestal building to the fact that he was a SecNav before he became SecDev and was a big proponent of aircraft carriers

Looks like the Texas A&M campus.

Looks like some old Soviet style buildings. Appropriate IMO

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No wonder DC is the most evil place on Earth.

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