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AT&T Building New York, Manhattan, Image, Architect, Postmodern Project, Photo

Sony Building New York : Architecture Information

Philip Johnson Building, United states of America



AT&T Building
1980–83
Philip Johnson, Architect with John Burgee

Location: Madison Avenue

AT&T Building
scanned image from 1989 by isabelle lomholt

AT&T Building Architect: Philip Johnson

Very famous Postmodern building with its so-called 'Chippendale Chair' top.

Its marriage of a regular (efficient = profitable) skyscraper with a iconic piece of architecture 'plonked' on top made it highly unpopular amongst many architects but regarded by many others as enviograting, moving away from the solemnity of typical Modern movement buildings - which had largely become stripped-down variants to money-making shells by the early Eighties.



Renamed the Sony Building.

AT&T building viewed between adjacent New York skyscrapers:
Sony Building New York
New York photo: Andrew McRae, 2007

New York Skyscrapers






New York Architecture - Selection

Empire State Building
Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, Architects
Empire State Building
photo © Andrew McRae
Empire State Building

Rockefeller Center
Raymond Hood, Architect
Rockefeller Center Manhattan
photograph © Andrew McRae
Rockefeller Center New York

New York World Trade Centre

Iconic Buildings



 
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