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The 50p Building: 4 Things You Didn't Know About Number One Croydon

The 50p Building: 4 Things You Didn't Know About Number One Croydon

If you have ever passed through East Croydon station, you can’t miss it. Rising out of the South London skyline like a stack of white poker chips, ...

Japanese Postmodern Architecture of the Bubble Era

1980s Japan was a nation hurtling at exponentially increasing speeds into a seething, self-consuming, technologically fantastical, aesthetically ...

Thompson Center, now Google Center (originally the State of Illinois Center), Chicago's Postmodern Civic Masterpiece

The Thompson Center in Chicago (originally the State of Illinois Center) is regarded as one of the most important postmodern public buildings in th...

The Tokyo Metropolitan Government Buildings by Kenzo Tange, Imperial Postmodern Masterpieces

This blog describes Kenzo Tange’s monumental Tokyo Metropolitan Government Complex in Nishi-Shinjuku, completed in 1991. Consisting of two vast bui...

Humax Pavilion - Tokyo Postmodern Architecture

In the 1980s, Japan underwent an unprecedented economic and cultural transformation, driven by rapid industrial growth, real estate speculation, an...