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Bidenomics

Cass Gilbert’s Alexander Hamilton U.S. Customs House is going green thanks to the Inflation Reduction Act

Make Federal Buildings Great Again...Again!?

Dueling bills spell potential futures for the federal government’s architectural sensibilities

exterior rendering of a courthouse building
Making Delta Waves

Construction kicks off on Duvall Decker’s new U.S. Courthouse in Greenville, Mississippi

exterior of a federal courthouse with a brise-soliel facade
Bright-Line Rule

Built with a minimal budget, Lake|Flato Architects’ San Antonio Federal Courthouse focuses on the most affordable material of all: daylight

rendering of a white mid-rise tower with palms in the front
Ride The Waves

SOM’s Fort Lauderdale Federal Courthouse design wins GSA approval

a large red modern sculpture outside a federal office building
Art In (Government) Architecture

Biden’s GSA quashes Trump-era restrictions on art in federal buildings

70s-era federal office building in manhattan
Federal Facelift

GSA taps Krueck Sexton Partners to lead $240 million rehab of Manhattan’s Silvio J. Mollo Federal Building

US Treasury Building, which is already in a style mandated by the executive order
The Opposition Rolls In

The AIA comes out swinging against Trump’s modern architecture-shunning federal building mandate

a classical style federal building in washington, now mandated under an executive order
A Big Day For Pediments

Trump signs executive order mandating classical architecture for D.C. federal buildings

Aerial shot of fort lauderdale, showing a river winding between houses
Draft Outrage

AIA speaks out against federal neoclassical mandate for Fort Lauderdale courthouse

A squat, multistory orange concrete ziggurat office building
Maybe It Can Be Turned Into A Pizza Hut

Iconic William Pereira-designed Ziggurat may be demolished after a government sell off

Panel from a mural on the UCSF campus
A New Deal For The New Deal

Federal government reaches out to UCSF over endangered WPA murals

spertus institute chicago
Truly for the Birds

The House of Representatives passes bipartisan Bird-Safe Buildings Act

An example of federal architecture, the Capitol dome
By Decree

On beauty, value, and justice in federal architecture in America

Exterior view of sharply shaped glass building with angular volumes
Order, Order!

Critics speak out over the draft federal architecture mandate

Aerial view of U.S. Capitol and administrative buildings
Neoclassical is Now in Session

AIA rejects Trump’s draft order for uniform federal architecture style

A photo of the White House, a neoclassical structure akin to the buildings typified in the new executive order
Making Federal Buildings Beautiful Again

[Updated] Potential executive order might force neoclassical style on federal buildings

New Statement Released

Will the GSA cut ties with Trump over his Old Post Office hotel?

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