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SRS Mall, Faridabad, India, 2004.

(via The Postmodern Society)

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The face house swallows its inhabitants. By Kazumasa Yamashita, Kyoto 1974.

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1980s: Italian designer Cleto Munari commissioned a group of world-famous architects to design a new jewelry collection. The (unashamedly PoMo) results were documented in a book by Barbara Radice called "Jewelry By Architects."

Including projects by: ROBERT VENTURI,  PETER EISENMAN, ARATA ISOZAKI, Michele De Lucchi, Ettore Sottsass, and more.

Source: Sight Unseen

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Shtrikh Kod (Barcode), a shopping centre designed by Vitruvius & Sons.

Completed in 2007 in St Petersburg, Russia.

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Droga Czterech Bram, or The Way of Four Gates Seminary. (Wyższe Seminarium Duchowne Zgromadzenia Księży Zmartwychwstańców)

Built 1985-1993 in Kraków, Poland.  Design Architect: Dariusz Kozłowski  Model by: Janusz Hadt, Stanisław Nesterski

“Architektura to jest budowanie rzeczy fikcyjnych tak, by wyglądały jak prawdziwe.” / “Architecture is the construction of fictional things in a way that makes them look real.”

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The Ginza Robot Cabinet, designed by Masanori Umeda in 1982 for the Italian design group Memphis.

Plastic-laminated wood and chipboard, stands 5 feet tall.

Currently sells for $15,800. 

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The Elephant Building or Chang Building (ตึกช้าง) in Bangkok, Thailand. 

A collaboration between Dr Arun Chaisaree (ดร.อรุณ ชัยเสรี) and architect Ong-ard Satrabhandhu (องอาจ สาตรพันธุ์), the building has 32 floors and is 102 metres (335 ft) high. It was completed in 1997.

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The Neue Staatsgalerie in Stuttgart, Germany, was designed by the British firm James Stirling, Michael Wilford and Associates. It was constructed in the 1970s and opened to the public in 1984. Architectural critic Charles Jencks claims the gallery "epitomized the first stage of Post-Modernism in much the way the Villa Savoye and Barcelona Pavilion summarized early Modernism."

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Roberto Semprini & Mario Canzanzi, sofa Tatlin, 1989. For Edra, Italy.

Inspired by Vladimir Tatlin’s constructivist design for the spiralled tower Monument to the Third International (1919–20).

(Images from Interiors with Edra, Vol. 2)

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The National Department of Fisheries; Hyderabad, India; unknown architect, unknown year.

(source: The Postmoden Society)

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“The essence of sculpture is for me the perception of space, the continuum of our existence.” –Isamu Noguchi

Bell Child- 1950, Seto stoneware Kokeshi- 1951, Mamari granite

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Disney's All-Star Sports Resort, opened in 1994. Designed by Miami-based firm Arquitectonica.

It is one of five Resorts in the Value Resort category, along with Disney's All-Star Music Resort, Disney's All-Star Movies Resort, Disney's Pop Century Resort, and Disney's Art of Animation Resort. 

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ECLECTIC HOUSE PROJECT 

Architects: Venturi Scott Brown and Associates, 1977 

Sketches for a series of imaginary houses, with a program for a minimal vacation bungalow. This is a theoretical exercise on the idea of the decorated front and the ordinary or “Mary-Anne” behind. Style and function are juxtaposed rather than distorted; the styles are applied to the front while plan, section, and the other three elevations remain constant. With references from ancient Egypt as well as the Gothic, Renaissance, and Art Nouveau periods, among others, the drawings chart architectural history as imagined in the design of dwellings.  

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Whakatane Airport, New Zealand. 

The "excitingly different" terminal building was designed by Roger Walker and completed in 1974.

(source: The Postmoden Society)

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Postmodernity in architecture is said to be heralded by the return of "wit, ornament and reference" to architecture in response to the formalism of the International Style of modernism. The functional and formalized shapes and spaces of the modernist style are replaced by diverse aesthetics: styles collide, form is adopted for its own sake. 

Modernist architects may regard postmodern buildings as vulgar, associated with a populist ethic, and sharing the design elements of shopping malls, cluttered with "gew-gaws". Postmodern architects may regard many modern buildings as soulless and bland, overly simplistic and abstract. Robert Venturi was at the forefront of the postmodern movement. His book, "Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture" (1966), included the adaptation of Mies van der Rohe’s famous maxim “Less is more” to "Less is a bore." 

Postmodernism become a popular movement in the late 1970s and continues to influence present-day architecture and design. 

(quoted from: Wikipedia)

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Vilbert Chair by Verner Panton for Ikea, 1993.

The design did not initially lead to tremendous commercial success, and IKEA discontinued the chairs due to a lack of interest. Approximately 3000 chairs were produced. It consists of four MDF boards coated in melamine.

Currently sells for upwards of $1,462.00/ chair.