Architecture, January 1, 2001

“Robert C. Byrd United States Courthouse and Federal Building, Beckley, West Virginia”

Written by Larry Speck

CRITIQUE The new Robert C. Byrd United States Courthouse and Federal Building in Beckley, West Virginia, is an unapologetic homage to the architecture of another era. The General Services Administration jury that selected its design in a 1995 limited competition lauded its reference to 1930s WPA style, which they considered to produce “an extremely successful [...]