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Structural Expressionism is a style of modernist architecture in which the core structural elements of the building are expressed in the building's appearance. The style has been around since at least the 1960s, but it did not become popular and widespread until the 1980s. Like Brutalism, Structural Expressionist buildings reveal their structure on the outside as well as the inside, but with visual emphasis placed on the internal steel and/or concrete skeletal structure as opposed to exterior concrete walls. The style is sometimes referred to as "high tech" modernism. One of the style's premier practicioners is the British architect Norman Foster, whose work has since earned him knighthood. Modern architecture is a broad term given to a number of building styles with similar characteristics, primarily the simplification of form and the elimination of ornament, that first arose around 1900. ...
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Brutalism is an architectural style that spawned from the Modernist architectural movement and which flourished from the 1950s to the 1970s. ...
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Buildings designed in this style usually consist of a clear glass facade, with the building's network of support beams exposed behind it. Perhaps the most famous and easily recognized building built in this style is I.M. Pei's Bank of China Tower in Hong Kong. The World Trade Center in New York City, although generally considered to be an International Style building, was technically a Structural Expressionist design due to its load-bearing steel exoskeleton. Glass can be made transparent and flat, or into other shapes and colours as shown in this ball from the Verrerie of Brehat in Brittany. ...
Ieoh Ming Pei (貝聿銘 pinyin Bèi Yùmíng) is a Chinese American architect born in Suzhou, China on April 26, 1917. ...
BOC Tower at night The Bank of China Tower (short: BOC Tower; ä¸éŠ€å¤§å»ˆ) is a huge skyscraper in Central, Hong Kong. ...
, This article is about the former World Trade Center complex in New York City. ...
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The Weissenhof Estate in Stuttgart, Germany (1927) The Weissenhof Estate in Stuttgart, Germany (1930) The International style was a major architectural trend of the 1920s and 1930s. ...
Well-Known Examples - Irvine Company headquarters, Newport Beach, California, United States (William Pereira, 1968)
- John Hancock Center, Chicago, Illinois, United States (Fazlur Khan, 1969)
- World Trade Center, New York City, United States (Minoru Yamasaki, 1971) (demolished 2001)
- Bank of China Tower, Hong Kong (I.M. Pei, 1989)
- Hotel Arts, Barcelona, Spain (Frank Gehry, 1992)
- 30 St. Mary Axe, London, United Kingdom (Norman Foster, 2003)
- Hearst Publications building, New York City, United States (Norman Foster, 2004)
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