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Modern Architecture- Futuristic Facade Decorated Miesien Box- see also Socialist Moderne / Socialist Brutalism, Mid-century modern

Bangkok, Thailand. Architecture of the Corbusian brise soleil and screened facade.   Bangkok, Thailand
Bangkok, Thailand   Marina City, Chicago.Bertram Goldberg, 1959-64.
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181 Miller Street, North Sydney 201 Miller Street, North Sydney  
 
Fashion Institute of Technology, New York Fashion Institute of Technology, New York  
     
In the late sixties the Miesien box combined with the Corbusian brise soleil to produce some highly original and "funky" articulated facades.
A decorative reaction against the minimalist strictures of Internationalism and in a way the last gasp of the International Style.
All about the facade (with some Post-war Futurist and Brutalist overtones at times).