Blow Up Washington, D.C.’s Brutalist Buildings — and the Sooner, the Better

They are a tribute to soulless monumentality and a gut punch to the human spirit.

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Exterior of the Department of Housing and Urban Development building located in downtown Washington, D.C., July 26, 2021.

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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 capital is finally beginning to move on from these concrete monstrosities.

Rich Lowry

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Rich Lowry

Rich Lowry is the editor in chief of National Review.

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