Post-Modern buildings, dating from approximately 1970, seeks to restore some of the more decorative aspects of pre-Modernist structures, particularly with the available of newer materials.  It is less one particular style or movement, as an attempt to categorize what the Oxford Dictionary of Architecture indicates is "connected with a loss of faith in what were once regarded as certainties (e.g., progress, rationality, science) and with a growing acceptance of a bewilderingly large palette of images, signs, and products promoted on a scale never experienced before in the history of the world, which some . . . have welcomed as offering 'complexity' and 'contradiction' in design." Eric Nash, in New York's 50 Best Skyscrapers, writes that "postmodern architecture embraces disjunctures, rather than trying to impose a uniform style." The two examples below are in New York, from the architectural firm of Johnson/Burgee.

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