AT&T Building (550 Madison Avenue)

Architecture · 1978–1984 · New York · Americas

A skyscraper topped by a Chippendale-style broken pediment, by the co-designer of Seagram

Author: Philip Johnson, John Burgee
Style: Postmodernism — Irony and quotation instead of one truth: columns, pediments and games with the viewer
Century: 20th century

Made around the same time (±30 years)

1967 One Hundred Years of Solitude — Gabriel García Márquez · Mexico City
1962 Campbell's Soup Cans — Andy Warhol · Pop art · New York
1959–1973 Sydney Opera House — Jørn Utzon · Modern architecture (International Style) · Sydney
1977 Warlugulong — Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri, Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri · Western Desert dot painting · Papunya
1979–1984 Neue Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart — James Stirling, Michael Wilford · Postmodernism · Stuttgart
c. 1979 If on a winter's night a traveler — Italo Calvino · Postmodernism · Paris
1964–1971 Rothko Chapel — Mark Rothko · Abstract expressionism · Houston
1964 Enta Omri (You Are My Life) — Umm Kulthum · Cairo