11. Plan of building
12. • The ornamentation for the building includes a wide frieze below the deep cornice, which expresses the formalized yet naturalistic celery-leaf foliage. • It has rich decorative patterns in low relief, varying in design and scale with each story. The frieze is pierced by unobtrusive bull's-eye windows that light the top-story floor, originally containing water tanks and elevator machinery, the building includes embellishments of terra cotta.
13. bull's-eye windows that light the top-story floor, originally containing water tanks and elevator machinery Details of ornamentation done
14. Postmodernity Postmodernity in architecture is said to be heralded by the return of "wit, ornament and reference" to architecture in response to the formalism of the International Style of modernism. The functional and formalized shapes and spaces of the modernist style are replaced by diverse aesthetics: styles collide, form is adopted for its own sake, and new ways of viewing familiar styles and space abound. Perhaps most obviously, architects rediscovered the expressive and symbolic value of architectural elements and forms that had evolved through centuries of building which had been abandoned by the modern style.
15. Characterstics The characteristics of postmodernism allow its aim to be expressed in diverse ways. • These characteristics include the use of sculptural forms, ornaments, anthropomorphism and materials which perform trompe l'oeil. These physical characteristics are combined with conceptual characteristics of meaning, including pluralism, double coding, flying buttresses and high ceilings, irony and paradox, and contextualism. • The sculptural forms, not necessarily organic, were created with much ardor. Each building’s forms are nothing like the conforming rigid ones of Modernism. These forms are sculptural and are somewhat playful. These forms are not reduced to an absolute minimum; they are built and shaped for their own sake. • Postmodernism, with its sensitivity to the building’s context, did not exclude the needs of humans from the building. The characteristics of Postmodernism were rather unified given their diverse appearances. The most notable among their characteristics is their playfully extravagant forms and the humour of the meanings the buildings conveyed.