yes the new federal courthouse looks like a space age gulag.  once you go in, you never come out.  there are a whole lot of ways to make something as "terror proof" as possible without that monstrosity.  a certain part of the white house is a bunker basically.  completely beefed up with most modern materials and you would never know.  what we see is a façade. an old timey building.  I just urge you to go see the bethel schools that have been rebuilt.  they are right for the landscape, modern and willamette high especially is gorgeous.  go look.   one can line up cargo containers and make them look ultra modern and still warm...this glass is wrong for our climate. it just reflects gray skies 7 months out of the year.