Another Blow to Brutalism: Demolition Begins on San Jose's MLK Jr. Library

Another piece of the brutalist style of architecture has begun to be erased this week, with the news that San Jose’s Martin Luther King Jr. Library began being demolished earlier this week. Built in 1970, it was designed by Norton Curtis, who the Mercury News writes, built a handful of “ugly” government buildings in the city’s downtown in an era when modernism had perhaps lost its way a bit. Here’s a bit more from the Mercury‘s Scott Herhold:

As a library, it was poorly designed, ceding interior space for high ceilings and escalators rather than stacks.