It’s been an interesting time to be a brutalist building on the internet. Our HHS_Spox & Online Communications Director went on FederalNewsNet to defend my honor and talk about internet culture, our great team, and more. -HHHB
The great comedian Rodney Dangerfield became famous for his jokes about lack of respect, partly for being ugly. One went like this: He was so ugly as a child, his dad carried around the picture that came with the wallet. If buildings could talk, the Hubert H. Humphrey Federal Building, home to headquarters for the Health and Human Services Department, might also lament about being considered ugly. In fact, its become something of an internet...
spoke with online communications director Kelly Langford, and the acting assistant secretary for public affairs, Kamara Jones.And I guess throughout its history, the building has been controversial because it is in a style that is kind of got a name that could connote lack of beauty, namely the brutalist style. But it was really a famous architect. I mean, [General Services Administration ] does not hire amateurs to design federal buildings, does it?No, it doesn’t.
Insight by CrowdStrike: During this exclusive webinar, moderator Justin Doubleday and agency and industry leaders will discuss what strategies and trends agencies are employing in their cybersecurity journey. Register today!Yeah. So this was Marcel Breuer, the great architect, and this is one of his final commissions, I guess. Fair to say?Exactly, yes. He did this building and the HUD building, which we jokingly called on the Internet a sibling.
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