NY Architecture- Late Modern

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	New York Architecture Images- Search by style International Style III (Late Modern)
	Approximate Dates 1980-present
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036 The Porter House 037 The Nomadic Museum 030 Perry West 013 Capitol at Chelsea 037 Post Luminaria 009 Butterfield House 064 Millenium Hilton Hotel 060- 497 Greenwich St. 004 17 State St. 027 Scandinavia House 036 LVMH 124 Hearst Magazine Building 125C New York Times Building 125D Ernst & Young 1 CPW- Trump International Hotel and Tower (001) 156 Time Warner Center 157 1 Bryant Park 159 Trump World Tower 160 425 5th Avenue 005-The Copley
By the end of the 1970s it was clear that Post- Modern was a recognisable style which was not going to go away, however much its opponents attacked what they felt were its superficiality and obsession with historicism. It was even suggested that modern architecture (as represented by the International style) had died at 3.32 p.m. on 15 July 1972, when several buildings of the Pruitt-Igoe high-rise apartment complex in St Louis, Missouri, were blown up. Designed by Minoru Yamasaki, an impeccably credentialled modernist, Pruitt-Igoe had undoubtedly become an uninhabitable shambles, owing to socio-economic factors as much as to architectural style per Se. Be that as it may, with modernism now proclaimed dead and with post-modernism starting to gain ground, a style name was needed to identify a new breed of buildings which seemed to owe more to the deceased modern movement than to anything else. The label Late Modern was therefore created. Late Twentieth-Century Late Modern buildings avoided most of the allusions, irony and self- mockery of post-modernism, although they sometimes paid homage to Inter-War Functionalism. They also modified the uncomplicated, predictable matchbox shapes of the International style by slicing, chamfering or serrating them, by stressing the 45-degree angle in plan and elevation, or by relinquishing the rectangular prism in favour of pyramidal, cylindrical or free-curved shapes. Late Modern architecture was nothing if not sleek and glossy. It strove to convey the image of the formidable technology of the computer and the satellite, a technology that was not yet practical for everyday use in the building industry even though it appeared overseas in such tours de force as the HongKong and Shanghai Bank and the Lloyds of London Building. A run-of-the-mill commercial building of the 1980s was likely to wear a tinted, mirror-glass façade which—like the sunglasses of the well-groomed, ambitious Late Modern people behind it—reflected the world outside and enigmatically hid what might have been no more than an inner emptiness.
see also- International Style I (for definition), International Style II
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