Late Modernism

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Shinjuku Mitsui Building, Nihon Sekkei, Tokyo, 1972-4

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Mighty little gold mirror faceted pyramidal corner building, Akasaka, Tokyo

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CNA Park Place. Los Angeles, CA. Langdon and Wilson Architects. Design 1969, completion 1971. Photograph by Wayne Thom.

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Japan Gas Association pavilion, the “World of Laughter,” Expo ’70, Osaka, Ohbayashi-Gumi, 1970. “Laughter is a gift bestowed only upon human beings, and the main aim of this pavilion is the recovery of laughter.”

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French pop hi-tech cool, Front de Seine, Paris

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Funky things (vents?), Front de Seine, Paris

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Birmingham 💪🏼 Wesleyan Assurance Society building, Birmingham, Peter Hing & Jones, 1988-1991

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Campbell Center I & II, Dallas, Neuhaus & Taylor 1972.

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‪IBM Manufacturing & Training Facility, 1956-1958, Rochester, Eero Saarinen, Minnesota‬ ‪"Saarinen and partner John Dinkeloo created this curtain wall using extruded aluminum mullions that held the two-toned blue porcelain enamel on aluminum panels" (Grover 2012)‬

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Northpark Office Towers, John Portman, Atlanta, 1986. Photo by Jonathan Hillyer

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Cosmos Hotel, Moscow, V. Andreev and T. Zaikin and B. Steiskal of Mosproekt 1; and O. Kakub, P. Jouglet, S. Epstein of France, 1979

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A fabulisciously swank bit of American-style late 70s corporate campus in Glasgow city centre. The Britoil Building, Arup, 1982-6.

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Villa Nara Mondadori, Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, Oscar Niemeyer, 1968-1972.

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Millennium Tower, Vienna Gustav Peichl, Boris Podrecca and Rudolf F. Weber, 1999

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Humana HQ Competition entry, Norman Foster, 1982

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‪Amoco Building (now Aon Center), Chicago, Edward Durell Stone, 1970-3‬ Photo by Valentino Danilo Matteis

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The utterly brilliant Exchange House, SOM, 1990