With Donald Trump issuing his executive order calling for future federal buildings to be “beautiful,” I extended my Twitter thread contrasting comparable buildings from before and after WWII, such as upscale municipalities’ city halls, other government buildings, public libraries and the like. The order is pretty rambling, but people seemed to like it.

In contrast to the many pictures online of the 1932 Beverly Hills City Hall, here is the only picture I can find of the Malibu City Hall: pic.twitter.com/oDmu9bnYwL

— Steve Sailer (@Steve_Sailer) February 10, 2020

One reason for the dichotomy is that Beverly Hills in 1932 saw a spectacular city hall as good advertising for attracting newcomers to Beverly Hills to buy up its empty lots. In contrast, modern Malibu doesn’t want more residents. Its civic motto is “Get out of Malibu, Lebowski!”

In contrast, the 1963 Orange Government Center in Goshen, NY by Paul Rudolph: Tentacle Porn Brutalism pic.twitter.com/nCOOnTH3Yd

— Steve Sailer (@Steve_Sailer) December 22, 2020

Buffalo City Hall, 1931: looks like where Superman would fight bad guys. pic.twitter.com/MM7EhHqg3x

— Steve Sailer (@Steve_Sailer) December 22, 2020

And win.

Not surprisingly, construction began a month before the stock market crash of October 1929.

Thom Mayne's 2005 federal building in San Francisco. Starchitect Mayne is secretly an anti-government extremist who designs ugly and misanthropic government buildings because he hates bureaucrats and wants them to suffer from 9 to 5 every day of the work week. pic.twitter.com/WO54TIaAgj

— Steve Sailer (@Steve_Sailer) December 22, 2020

That’s just a joke. Mayne is a leftist. He doesn’t hate bureaucrats in particular, he hates everybody.

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“You people, you like domes, right? Okay, okay, we’ll build you a dome out in the front of city hall for your tacky weddings and proms. But we’re not going to taint the architectural integrity of the actual San Jose city hall by including a dome in the main building.”

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