The White House will no longer show deference to classical architecture.

According to Axios, he called the J. Edgar Hoover Building “one of the ugliest buildings in the city.”

And don’t miss a Theaster Gates performance and Brutalism appreciation at the Hirshhorn.

A gift for the Brutalist architecture fan in your life?

“…A punchy ode to imperialism that sounds as if it were born out of a defunct Soviet discotheque.”

Photo by mosley.brian Marc Fisher has the big news that the years-long fight between historic preservationists and the congregation of the Third Church of Christ, Scientist at 16th and I Streets NW appears to have been resolved by the District. D.C. planning director Harriet Tregoning has ruled that historic preservation zealots trying to force the church to keep its concrete bunker of a building on 16th Street NW near the White House were wrong…

Photo used with permission under a Creative Commons license with rodeomilanoMarc Fisher and David Alpert both get a yuk from the following exchange between U.S. District Court Judge James Robertson and D.C. Assistant Attorney General Leah Taylor, which took place last week during a hearing that all but decided the fate of the controversial Third Church of Christ, Scientist: “Have you seen the church?” Judge Robertson asked . . . “Yes, your honor,” she…