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1958-1988

  • Seagram Building

    Seagram Building
    The Seagram is a skyscraper, located at 375 Park Avenue, between 52nd Street and 53rd Street in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. The structure was designed by German architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
  • The Guggenheim

    The Guggenheim
    The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, often referred to as The Guggenheim, is an art museum in Manhattan, Newyork.
  • Space Needle

    Space Needle
    The Space Needle is an observation tower in Seattle, Washington, a landmark of the Pacific Northwest, and an icon of Seattle. It was built in the Seattle Center for the 1962 World's Fair.
  • The Fire Next Time- James Baldwin

    The Fire Next Time- James Baldwin
    The Fire Next Time is a book by James Baldwin.This book consists of two essays, both examining the so-called "Negro Problem" in America in the early 1960s.
  • Skylon Tower

    Skylon Tower
    The Skylon Tower, in Niagara Falls, Ontario, is an observation tower that overlooks both the American Falls, New York, and the larger Horseshoe Falls, Ontario, from the Canadian side of the Niagara River.
  • The Autobiography of Malcolm X

    The Autobiography of Malcolm X
    The Autobiography of Malcolm X was published in 1965, the result of a collaboration between human rights activist Malcolm X and journalist Alex Haley.
  • Circa

    Circa
    Found in a farmhouse in Southwestern Indiana between Terre haute and Vincennes, this painting was created in 1965 when the civil rights movement was heating up in the cities across America. Signed T Blum '65
  • First Football Game

    First Football Game
    The First Game is a painting by Arnold Friberg, and was commissioned in 1968 by Chevrolet Motor Division as one of four paintings to commemorate the then-upcoming centennial celebration of college football in the United States.
  • Venus Mural

    Venus Mural
    Venus is a twelve-story-high mural painting by Knox Martin next to Bayview Correctional Facility in Manhattan, New York City.
  • Redwood Sculpture

    Redwood Sculpture
    Redwood sculpture, 1970
  • The Singing Sculptor

    The Singing Sculptor
    In 1970, Gilbert and George first performed their famous Singing Sculpture, at the Nigel Greenwood Gallery, coated in metallic make-up, the duo stood on a table and moved in robotic movement to comedy double-act.
  • Rothko Chapel

    Rothko Chapel
    The chapel is an octagonal brick building with gray or rose stucco walls and a baffled skylight. It serves as a place of meditation as well as a meeting hall.
  • World Trade Center

    World Trade Center
  • Let's Get it On- Marvin Gaye

    Let's Get it On- Marvin Gaye
    Let's Get It On is the thirteenth studio album by American recording artist Marvin Gaye. Let's Get It On incorporates smooth soul, doo-wop, and quiet storm. It has been noted by critics for its sexually suggestive lyrics, and was cited by one writer as one of the most sexually charged albums ever recorded.
  • Barbican Estate

    Barbican Estate
    The Barbican Estate is a residential estate built during the 1960s and the 1970s in the City of London, in an area once devastated by World War II bombings.
  • CN Tower

    CN Tower
    The CN Tower is a 553.33 m-high concrete communications and observation tower in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada it was completed in 1976, becoming the world's tallest free-standing structure and world's tallest tower at the time.
  • The Piazza d'Italia

    The Piazza d'Italia
    The Piazza d'Italia is an urban public plaza located at Lafayette and Commerce Streets in downtown New Orleans, Louisiana. Completed in 1978 according to a design by noted postmodern architect Charles Moore and Perez Architects.
  • Xanadu House

    Xanadu House
    The Xanadu Houses were a series of experimental homes built to showcase examples of computers and automation in the home in the United States.
  • HSBC Hong Kong

    HSBC Hong Kong
    HSBC Main Building is a headquarters building of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, which is today a wholly owned subsidiary of London-based HSBC Holdings.
  • Descontructivist Architecture

    Descontructivist Architecture
    Deconstructivism is a development of postmodern architecture that began in the late 1950s. It is influenced by the theory of "Deconstruction", which is a form of semiotic analysis.