Hard Hat tour of Long Beach Civic Center during @lbarchweek. Not yet finished, the design has already been criticized as "more pinstripe than iconic" and it does feel more corporate than civic. Perhaps this is the public architecture we deserve today - it is the product of an innovative P3 privately financed turn-key delivery contract, reflecting the "government should run like a business" mentality of our era, in contrast to the heroic concrete brutalism of the Kennedy-Johnson era or the Art Deco of the WPA period. | Architecture by @skidmoreowingsmerrill #skidmoreowingsmerrill #longbeacharchitectureweek #hardhattour #longbeachcivicenter #longbeacharchitecture
