It's no wonder the style became the go-to for government buildings and monuments across Europe and the United States that still stand proud today. Neoclassical architecture originated during the ...

President Donald Trump’s sweeping efforts to remake the federal government extend even to the buildings that house it, as he revives his fight against modern and contemporary architecture and ...

Plenty of people — including me — adore the look of D.C.’s Federal Triangle, the massive 1930s constellation of Neoclassical government buildings including the Justice Department ...

The new mandate rehashes the “Make federal buildings neoclassical again” executive ... Trump is doing a smash-and-grab on the whole federal government and needn’t waste his time on minutiae ...

This looming decree pits Trump’s neoclassical nostalgists ... style-fits-all approach to federal buildings makes about as much sense as requiring all government employees to communicate ...

What happened the first time Late into his first term, Trump signed an executive order to promote neoclassical architecture as the official style for federal buildings in Washington, D.C., and ...

Many government buildings are designed for specific functions ... and key parts of Federal Triangle, the neoclassical core of downtown Washington that took decades to design and construct.

has become somewhat fixated on what federal buildings should look like. It is true that in the early days of the republic, America’s first architectural mode was in the neoclassical style.

That lineup included key government buildings in Washington, D.C., from Brutalist landmarks (a style derided by President Trump) like the ‘60s-era J. Edgar Hoover Building, to historic neoclassical ...

Even some that didn’t—like the Art Deco-inflected County Hall on the Thames, once a government building, now home to tourist attractions—have become what Mr. Knox laments as “an ...