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Review: Why are federal buildings so ugly?

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Summary
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59% Informative

Capital Brutalism is an exhibit on view through February 17 at the National Building Museum in Washington , D.C. The FBI Building was declared the ugliest building in the U.S. and the second uglier in the world in a Buildworld survey.

The exhibit asks, "Might we find a way to love these places and to live with them into the future?".

VR Score

68

Informative language

72

Neutral language

3

Article tone

formal

Language

English

Language complexity

53

Offensive language

possibly offensive

Hate speech

not hateful

Attention-grabbing headline

not detected

Known propaganda techniques

not detected

Time-value

medium-lived

Source diversity

1

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