It is interesting that this current US administration wants to go back to neoclassic architecture. Do you really want to copy the style of other countries instead of using the ones that made your country an architectural icon, or even innovate with new designs? www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/a...
If anything it seems that this administration hates american art. Not very patriotic of them.
Look at the pictures from inside the White House - temu gilding everywhere. Some may argue COVID is the cause of his lack of taste, but there’s photographic evidence that the absence was evident well before the pandemic. Probably it’s congenital.
Its the return of the Gilded Age, but worse.
I shudder to think whatever the orange shit thinks being beautiful. Probably relates gold, so much it would make Auric Goldfinger weak in the knees.
Seeing his penthouse, or what he did to the White House, I would say that he likes cheap baroque. Like an offbrand Versailles.
I have many things to say about Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen. If I must provide a positive one: he appreciated the striking nature of concrete structures.
Sir Joh was very much a prototype: the Brisbane cultural precinct remains very focused on the control of all such aspects in this regard.
In conclusion, here is another photograph of the High Court of Australia.
