The enormous precast concrete office building—one of two designed by Breuer in Washington, D.C.—has been added to an ‘accelerated disposition’ list as HUD explores relocation options.
Both beloved and reviled, the brawny Brutalist building, recognized for “redefining the city’s architectural identity and the nature of public space,” will now receive certain protections.
Directed and co-written by Brady Corbet, the 215-minute cinematic epic of midcentury America treats the discipline of architecture with immense seriousness and humanity.
Both on view through next winter, the new shows pick up on different strains of location-specific Modernism to ponder what could be or what might have been.
