There's a new architect spearheading the White House ballroom project — and his fingerprints are already all over Washington.

The brutalist federal buildings that have blighted Washington for decades deserve the same fate as Carthage after the Third Punic War, and the nation's capital is finally beginning to move on from ...

Some of D.C.’s most polarizing buildings take center stage in “Capital Brutalism,” the National Building Museum’s latest exhibit. Brutalism — the style that was prevalent from the 1950s through the ...

There’s a reason God created dynamite. The brutalist federal buildings that have blighted Washington, D.C., for decades deserve the same fate as Carthage after the Third Punic War, and the nation’s ...

Washington DC has a large number of significant brutalist buildings. Here, architectural photographer Ty Cole picks eight of the most interesting. Largely built in the 1960s and 70s as the federal ...

There’s a reason God created dynamite. The brutalist federal buildings that have blighted Washington, D.C., for decades deserve the same fate as Carthage after the Third Punic War, and the nation’s ...

Good morning. The Capital Weather Gang has officially declared the end of summer in DC—it’s the earliest they’ve ever made this call. That’s the kind of good news I needed this week. Accordingly, ...

Call them monuments, foreign elements, eyesores — Brutalist buildings have become another battleground in President Trump’s culture war. The F.B.I. headquarters at the J. Edgar Hoover Building in ...

For its often blocky and raw concrete forms, Brutalist architecture has a polarizing reputation. That said, many monumental structures in the United States have been made in its stark vision, from ...

“The making of a good building,” observed architect Frank Lloyd Wright, “is a great moral performance.” Like many notable quotes about architecture, it speaks to grandeur, permanence, scale. One ...