Modernism 3

Modernism 3
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Late modernism expanded upon modernist principles and utilized curves and colors that might otherwise not have been found within the starker lines of modernist buildings. Late modern may refer to such buildings built between approximately 1960 and 1980. Different writers have different views as to a definition of late modernism; the Oxford Dictionary of Architecture states it is "architecture in which the images, ideas and motifs of the Modern Movement were taken to extremes, structures, technology, and services being grossly overstated at a time when Modernism was being questioned."

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First Hawaiian Center is the tallest building in Hawaii at 429 feet high. It was constructed between 1993 and 1996. For an article describing Hawaiian architectural principles, which were incorporated into this design, see http://www.answers.com/topic/hawaiian-architecture.

The CNA Plaza in Chicago is 600 feet high and was completed in 1972. It is 601 feet high and 44 stories. The architectural firm was Graham Anderson Probst and White.