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Thursday, July 17, 2008

Roman L. Hruska Federal Building

despite honoring a conservative Czechoslovakian politician, the federal courthouse affronts not the surrounding structures; its architecture balances these most pronounced characteristics of its namesake to achieve a design neither austere nor Bohemian.

still: nearly half the height of most buildings adjacent, it is doubly dispensable.