is a blog about design, technology and culture written by Khoi Vinh, and has been more or less continuously published since December 2000 in New York City. Khoi is currently Principal Designer at Adobe. Previously, Khoi was co-founder and CEO of Mixel (acquired in 2013), Design Director of The New York Times Online, and co-founder of the design studio Behavior, LLC. He is the author of “How They Got There: Interviews with Digital Designers About Their Careers”and “Ordering Disorder: Grid Principles for Web Design,” and was named one of Fast Company’s “fifty most influential designers in America.” Khoi lives in Crown Heights, Brooklyn with his wife and three children.
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Interesting is a fair word.
I’ve never been a great fan of brutalistic architecture, but growing up in the Mid-Atlantic has caused me to see a fair bit of it. There are two notable brutalist buildings in downtown Baltimore — and of course the FBI headquarters in Washington, DC.
One of the two buildings in Baltimore has been abandoned for more than a decade (a former theater), but has since been placed on the registry of historic places — thus ensuring that it will never be replaced by something more beautiful. You can see a story on it here: http://ianhin.es/Vshz