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Originally Posted by blackcat23
As several people who commented on the Curbed article mentioned, this is probably the result of the attacks from the Congressional representative from Bakersfield. If the GSA builds a no frills courthouse, it's a lot easier to shrug off accusations of wasteful spending.
It's a shame. I love this design, and think it would have been an incredible addition to the skyline.

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This doesn't make sense. The budget for this project is $320 mil. It's always stayed that way. All the competing firms were working on their designs with that figure in mind. So all of them, even that one by yazdani studio are presumably under $320 mil.