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EVER SINCE Times Square became the city’s entertainment district, its lure has been densely packed public space for people watching, and a kinetic cavalcade of electronic pop art in the form of advertising signs. Discontinuity and bricolage existed before French deconstructionism; it just took postmodern philosophy to elevate them to an aesthetic. With postmodernism, architects no longer felt they had to unify a building’s image; the 45-story Bertelsmann Building presents different, and unrelated, faces.
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(2005). Bertelsmann Building (originally 1540 Broadway). In: Manhattan Skyscrapers. Princeton Archit.Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-56898-652-1_71
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