In an article by Nicholai Ouroussoff in yesterday’s NY Times, I learned about the destruction of the recently opened US Customs office on the US/Canadian border designed by the New York architects, Smith-Miller & Hawkinson.

Featured in an exhibition that closes this week at the Van Alan Institute, the design for the Massena, NY boarder crossing is an elegant and considered update on what has otherwise forgotten part of the US graphic identity. It is sincerely sad that during a presidency that prides itself on a design sensitive agenda, we are still actively killing design on a national level.