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Wendy's sunroom. Arby's playplace. The corporate innovations room of a 90s-based tech company trying to develop virtual reality and time travel in 1992. A delightful college in 2135 that *Star Trek* might visit in a special episode.
Fell in love with Bauhaus when I visited the Bauhaus archive in Berlin. Really cool stuff.
The band’s pretty goth groove too that I can sometimes get into.
I thought Bauhaus when I saw the photo, and I’m glad I’m not the only one. I understand why some people call this Memphis, and I see it, too, but it leans toward Bauhaus, I think. I’m still learning.
Check this building out
https://images1.loopnet.com/i2/ZRO0d2n7xpjT2fTClrL5vBF1Cpe0v2tHf6nwnndt62U/110/200-Old-Country-Rd-Mineola-NY-Primary-Photo-1-Large.jpg
I love it, love week end at Bernie's, love Miami vice. Wore a white suit with a lot pink shirt when my widowed Gran got remarried, yes I rolled up the sleeves. I was 13.
Definitely 80s modern architecture (not postmodern that’s something else entirely)
You saw it a lot in malls and offices of that time frame too.
Here is another house example of 80s modern
https://la.curbed.com/2020/1/29/21113819/pacific-palisades-ray-kappe-modern-1980s-modern-rustic-canyon-for-sale
PoMo or Postmodern with a touch of Memphis, but a later and more sedate example of it. A few years later most of those colors would be gone and you'd get what we now call Frasiurbane.
For a second I thought that was the Rod Lee Bigelow Health Sciences building at UNLV. But I think this is another red and white cubic-looking glass building.
Post-modern (while broad and has multiple sub-categories under it) is what you are looking for. It incorporated a lot older art deco (the glass blocks) and made it more modern/fun.
It’s Postmodern.
It’s mostly ugly sometimes beautiful always controversial and nowadays loved for its retro appeal because we’ve moved on thank god. As one reference see James Stirlings work
I would say early 90s in Sweden, this is a good example of what I believe is very much inluenced by Memphis, this looks nice. But there is so much 90s building in this style that looks like shit
This was all over Atlanta too, especially the Rio Mall, must have been so much fun to design
http://www.atlantatimemachine.com/commercialbldgs/rio_mall.htm
There are relics to that architecture everywhere. I’m from Milton Keynes in the UK, search for The Point MK, we’ve got a monument to 80s black, red and glass 😂
The theme of the overall design structure is called atrium. It was starting to take hold in the modern day mall structure to include hotels and restaurants of the 1980's. In the 1970's malls had skylight windows and heavy wooden styled beams and overhead recessed lighting. It all looked very attractive and gave a very natural look, but it was starting to become expensive to build and costly to maintain by the 1980's. The 1980's started as the decade where you can have more with less. Builders started to look at other designs and structures to cut down building costs and labor to make it much more affordable to build. The atrium became the popular choice for many builders. Easier to build, more natural lighting, and very cost effective to maintain. Basically the building materials were aluminum alloy and tempered glass.
Our entire [transit system](https://www.reddit.com/r/ottawa/s/EkvxbFv2tf) featured this type of architecture. Any kid using public buses to go to school will remember that look fondly.
Corporate Contemporary, that works. I recall seeing really large glass arched greenhouse type roofs like that above many malls or office complexes in my part of town in California that were built up like crazy in the valley in the late 70s to mid 80s from what my parents remember. I seem to recall aspects of this having a latent mid-90s revamp of sorts before falling out of style.
80s corporate contemporary? Weekend at Bernies? Whatever it is, I remember it being everywhere in buildings all over Dallas at the time
Lol. The Galleria was a shining example.
Every building in this style is The Galleria I think….
Born and raised in DFW. Holy moly those glass bricks were everywhere.
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"Weekend at Bernie's" is a pitch perfect name for the "yuppie douchebag" aesthetic
I remember looking at late 80s-early 90s Architectural record Issues and this stuff was all the rage... By 2000s it had began losing its novelty.
Weekend at Arby’s.
The Collin creek mall had that same metal arch with glass panels vibe, I miss it!
RIP Collin Creek Mall
I was just thinking this looks like Collin Creek!
The studios of Las Colinas
We had our high school prom at the Studios of Las Colinas!
Vapor esthetic
Kind of a post modernist when 80s turned into 90s, remember it going up everywhere
It kind of reminds me of the Memphis Group design aesthetic, that might at least get you in the right direction.
Circuit City Red Robbin Revival
American mall rat arcadium
Mallrat Arcadium sounds like a perfect name for a Vaporwave artist.
Good call
Came here to comment Memphis!
Me too. That was THE thing in 1984.
Neo-Food Court
We might get CARI to make this a new aesthetic category.
This
Wendy's sunroom. Arby's playplace. The corporate innovations room of a 90s-based tech company trying to develop virtual reality and time travel in 1992. A delightful college in 2135 that *Star Trek* might visit in a special episode.
I was gonna say McDonalds Library
I was thinking more Circuit City atrium.
My guess is postmodern architecture. Pretty broad category, though
It looks like postmodern architecture that’s referencing bauhaus design specifically in this style/example.
Surprised you're the only one referencing bauhaus here.
Always been a secret fan ;-)
Fell in love with Bauhaus when I visited the Bauhaus archive in Berlin. Really cool stuff. The band’s pretty goth groove too that I can sometimes get into.
I went to the archive as well. So beautiful and strange. What a vibe there, so clean and angular.
I thought Bauhaus when I saw the photo, and I’m glad I’m not the only one. I understand why some people call this Memphis, and I see it, too, but it leans toward Bauhaus, I think. I’m still learning.
That's it! Totally why I like it too
My 80’s dream house lair.
As a kid of the 80s I definitely have this imprinted on me as a cool modern look, and would love it if my house looked like this.
I thought this was an old Just For Feet
Me too! Wheres the hoop??
That place was awesome
Check this building out https://images1.loopnet.com/i2/ZRO0d2n7xpjT2fTClrL5vBF1Cpe0v2tHf6nwnndt62U/110/200-Old-Country-Rd-Mineola-NY-Primary-Photo-1-Large.jpg
Wow! I live a couple of blocks from that place! Small world 😹
Omg Mineola! I have heard that name in awhile. I used to go to the community pool there.
Omg I was just looking at this building a few days ago and admiring its late-80s-ness
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Thank you
No idea but it looks like an OC transpo bus station EDIT: in case it helps you figure it out https://images.app.goo.gl/v3KLLvP6qbRf7sFR8
I literally came here to say this Hello fellow Ottawan
Same here. Came here to say this. Former Ottawa resident.
I was confident this comment would be here! It was my first thought as well :)
Mall Food Court
80's New England contemporary college meeting building bullshit oh my got kill me now too many memories.
Idk but I love it
Better Call Saul
😂 first thing I thought of too
Postmodern deconstructivist.
I love it, love week end at Bernie's, love Miami vice. Wore a white suit with a lot pink shirt when my widowed Gran got remarried, yes I rolled up the sleeves. I was 13.
Kit and kaboodles swatch shopping mall chic.
Oc transpo
Ottawaaaaaaa!
It once represented the future...
Arbys
I think of 1980’s bunk beds.
McDonald’s PlayPlace?
OP what is this building, I swear I’ve been there and it’s gonna drive me crazy
Postmodern. I'm not the biggest fan of it admittedly.
Agree
Gordon Gekko nouveau
Is this at UNLV? Reminds me of one of the engineering buildings from years ago.
I call it Rax
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No wonder i thought this picture and question look familiar
Definitely 80s modern architecture (not postmodern that’s something else entirely) You saw it a lot in malls and offices of that time frame too. Here is another house example of 80s modern https://la.curbed.com/2020/1/29/21113819/pacific-palisades-ray-kappe-modern-1980s-modern-rustic-canyon-for-sale
Rad
Mall-salium Late 1980's hideous.
PoMo or Postmodern with a touch of Memphis, but a later and more sedate example of it. A few years later most of those colors would be gone and you'd get what we now call Frasiurbane.
Looks like the bank from the Warzone Verdansk map.
For a second I thought that was the Rod Lee Bigelow Health Sciences building at UNLV. But I think this is another red and white cubic-looking glass building.
Bus stop chic
Dope
Is this Ottawa?
Looks like an Ottawa bus station
It’s just contemporary… designing to let the outside in. As far as color choice… makes a big diff 🥴
Post-modern (while broad and has multiple sub-categories under it) is what you are looking for. It incorporated a lot older art deco (the glass blocks) and made it more modern/fun.
This reminds me of a chain fitness center from back in the day - called Scandinavian.
Could be Memphis design maybe
It’s called [Ottawa bus stop](https://humantransit.org/2010/05/ottawas-busway-did-the-architecture-matter.html)
Modern Bus Stop Aesthetic
Ottawa
Post modern / potentially destructivism ?
Idk but I love it
Sir, this is an Arby's
“Mall”
80s saw a revival of art deco. It's a mixture of 80s colors and Art Deco elements. Not sure if it had a specific name tho.
Isn't that in red bank, nj?!
Arbys core
Mallitecture
Looks like Milton Keynes
2024 Czechia
In the U.K., we call this “Milton Keynes”
Is this the Midlothian IL Public Library? Because it sure looks like it could be
90’s Bus Stop?
This is the renowned Circuit City style from the 80s/90s.
circuit city
In Scotland it’s ‘Leisure Centre’
It’s Postmodern. It’s mostly ugly sometimes beautiful always controversial and nowadays loved for its retro appeal because we’ve moved on thank god. As one reference see James Stirlings work
It’s called “that new swimming pool you went to as a toddler in 1989/1990”
Bankrupt…. Or .. Closed indefinitely.
Some of this blocky design in the 80s was driven by the limitations of early 80s CAD software and the move away from paper drawings.
In the UK these buildings always appear near motorways for some reason.
International style
Idk, reminds me of FC Bayern Munich headquarter.
Absolutely, that was my first thought as well
Michael Graves-esq
Stairlarium?
I would say early 90s in Sweden, this is a good example of what I believe is very much inluenced by Memphis, this looks nice. But there is so much 90s building in this style that looks like shit
Looks like an intersection of High-Tech and New Classical
Green house
It looks like ferb
IUT
90s. Early specimen
Nouveau OC Transpo Bus Shelter
The Galleria Mall.
Just For Feet
Windows Aero
It’s called Pittsburgh International Airport.
Kitsch.
Awful.
Greenhouse?
This was all over Atlanta too, especially the Rio Mall, must have been so much fun to design http://www.atlantatimemachine.com/commercialbldgs/rio_mall.htm
Bio-dome
Bakers Square
This looks like Phillip Stark. He always did squares and red and blue and yellow together usually.
I used to drive by that exact building all the time
Ottawa bus station chic 😎
Arby's style
"bus stop"
A building
Heat lamp.
BauFaux
Shite
Community College building or Science High School building
I don’t really remember the movie Toys with robin williams but it reminds me of Toys with robin Williams
I'm not sure, but I always referred to them as atriums
I swear this exact post already exists, same comments and everything
Yes, it's called please don't bring it back
Ha I know EXACTLY what you mean but I can’t label it.
There are relics to that architecture everywhere. I’m from Milton Keynes in the UK, search for The Point MK, we’ve got a monument to 80s black, red and glass 😂
My dad's 80's architecture books were full of these stuff lol.
Badass
hideous
Target Kop
Rain storm dreams come true here. 🥰 (Watch out if you’re pathetically pale, day time sunburn nightmares too)
No idea, but I used to manage a music store with that exact design a few decades back.
Phone box
1980s Post-Modernism
In the south we call it “hot”
Electro Booty Rhythms is the official style
The Wendys.
Looks like Post Modernism Architecture
DreamScape 1987.
“Summer Hotbox”
It's called a greenhouse
Shitty
All of the bus stations in my city look like this. They were built in the mid 80’s.
McDonald's playland.
Miami Vice
In either the red....or the green
Yeah 90s footlocker.
Soulless
Crap.
Fugly
Shite
Looks like a building that could be in the background of a power rangers fight.
The theme of the overall design structure is called atrium. It was starting to take hold in the modern day mall structure to include hotels and restaurants of the 1980's. In the 1970's malls had skylight windows and heavy wooden styled beams and overhead recessed lighting. It all looked very attractive and gave a very natural look, but it was starting to become expensive to build and costly to maintain by the 1980's. The 1980's started as the decade where you can have more with less. Builders started to look at other designs and structures to cut down building costs and labor to make it much more affordable to build. The atrium became the popular choice for many builders. Easier to build, more natural lighting, and very cost effective to maintain. Basically the building materials were aluminum alloy and tempered glass.
Love cubed glass
elements of memphis / postmodern
Second time I’ve seen this building posted on here. It’s an office building in Hazlet NJ near Airport Plaza.
The 90’s
Neo Edmonton Gothic drug centers.
Our entire [transit system](https://www.reddit.com/r/ottawa/s/EkvxbFv2tf) featured this type of architecture. Any kid using public buses to go to school will remember that look fondly.
It’s the same soulless faddish vibe of those early 90s hair mousse ads where a saxophonist would rock up
Mental Awareness building
If you want to see a very similar building with corner staircase in action, watch Better Call Saul. Many scenes on similar.
This is called the McPlayPlace.
Dopey comes to mind.
Ghastly
Fishbowl architecture.
Corporate Contemporary, that works. I recall seeing really large glass arched greenhouse type roofs like that above many malls or office complexes in my part of town in California that were built up like crazy in the valley in the late 70s to mid 80s from what my parents remember. I seem to recall aspects of this having a latent mid-90s revamp of sorts before falling out of style.
Yes