D.C.’s new Capitol Visitor Center leaves critics unimpressed

By Emily Cadman2009-02-03T13:10:00

LA Times architecture critic Christopher Hawthorne is distinctly unimpressed by Washington's new Capitol visitors' centre, saying: "when it comes to the aesthetic and financial perils of government-sponsored architecture, you could hardly invent a more perfect cautionary tale than the one embodied by this grandiose complex sunk into the east side ...

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