Postmodernism deserves a little love too!

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This might very well end up being a thread just for @Arenacale and I to geek out over the architecture, designs and AESTHETIC of our younger years, aka the 1980s-90s, and that's okay! Totally no need to be defensive about this topic or anything! Postmodernism deserves a little respect too, right? Or is it the Rodney Dangerfield of styles and it can't ever get no respeck?!

To start things off, here's a bunch of screenshots I grabbed nearly two years ago when I discovered the vast trove of archives of architectural magazines OVER HERE. Architecture Magazine used to be the official AIA publication, and as such its pages are chock full of great writing, great photographs, and wonderfully evocative ads as well. I grabbed a very random collection based purely on my whims, and that's how I'm gonna present them here.

Nike HQ

Office lighting ad

Reston Town Center

CORAL PINK

Syracuse U Arts & Sciences

And to wrap things up, you can't have some Pomo without some Michael Graves

 

[Arenacale]

Man, that Reston Town Center looks like such a great place to just exist in. It looks like 500 Boylston and Fanueil Hall Marketplace had a love child. I also appreciate the effort that was put in to make the cube farms at least somewhat dynamic - you don't get that anymore.

I feel like a lot of postmodern spaces are on the endangered list. Every time I'm in Longwood I try to get over to the Galleria just to see it. It's perfect, and I know it's not going to last. It's too colorful and too fun to last in modern society.

One more thing I've found that I wish we got, the original PoMo New Garden. From https://archive.org/details/multipurposearen00howa/page/n157/mode/2up?q="New+boston+garden"

 

[stick n move]

Ally Detroit center

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(Note detroits own 1 boston place but white nearby, cool)

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100 east wisconsin milwaukee

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One atlantic center, atl

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Ive always had the opinion that Atlanta did POMO the right way. It has lots of spires, set backs, and buildings that look good together as part of the overall whole. Plus at night its night lighting is incredible. Comparing it to the other POMO skylines of Dallas and Houston Ive always felt that Atlanta shiiits on both.

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Piedmont park

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