It’s a sad day for admirers of functional expressionism in architecture—the wrecking ball has finally arrived. John M. Johansen‘s brutalist Morris A. Mechanic Theatre at the corner of Charles and West Baltimore Street is coming down. With klieg lights crisscrossing the night sky, Baltimore’s new 1,614-seat theatre opened on January 16, 1967. Over the years, I saw… Continue reading Baltimore lost a strong piece of brutalist architecture in 2014; the site is now an empty lot.