Innovations on Socialist Architecture: The New U.S. Federal Courthouse as "Globalist Realism" New Republican Archive. James F. Burke. The new Federal Courthouse in Boston is the building many joke about. Office-workers in downtown Boston must live with it everyday, as they look down upon its strange-looking structure from high office windows. Many are utterly repulsed by its shape and ugly red-brick facade. Without that facade, that is, stripped to its basic shape and form (imagine it with basic white concrete for the purposes of this exercise), the building is unmistakably Stalinist in design. The only pleasing view of it is...