AT&T Building

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The AT&T Building is a landmark postmodern skyscraper in New York City, renowned for its Chippendale-style broken pediment top and its influential role in 1980s architectural design.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf landmark
office building
postmodern building
skyscraper
architect John Burgee
Philip Johnson
architecturalFeature Chippendale-style broken pediment top
architecturalStyle postmodern architecture
borough Manhattan
cityLandmarkStatus New York City Landmark
completionDate 1984
considered icon of postmodern architecture
country United States of America
surface form: United States
criticizedFor departure from modernist glass-and-steel aesthetic
currentName 550 Madison Avenue
developer AT&T
floorCount 37
formerName AT&T Building self-link
Sony Tower
hasAtrium yes
hasPublicSpace privately owned public space
hasRenovation yes
height 197 meters
647 feet
influencedBy historicist architecture
landmarkDesignationBy New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission
landmarkDesignationYear 2018
locatedIn Manhattan
New York City
United States of America
surface form: United States
locatedOn Madison Avenue
material granite cladding
neighborhood Midtown Manhattan
notableFor Chippendale-style broken pediment top
influential role in 1980s architectural design
postmodern design
openingDate 1984
originalOwner AT&T
partOf Midtown Manhattan
surface form: Midtown Manhattan skyline
primaryFunction corporate offices
renovationStart 2010s
roofShape broken pediment
startDate 1978
streetAddress 550 Madison Avenue
use commercial offices

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You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
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Subject: AT&T Building
Description of subject: The AT&T Building is a landmark postmodern skyscraper in New York City, renowned for its Chippendale-style broken pediment top and its influential role in 1980s architectural design.

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Philip Johnson notableWork AT&T Building
AIA Twenty-five Year Award hasRecipient AT&T Building
this entity surface form: AT&T Building (550 Madison Avenue)
Sony Tower formerName AT&T Building
AT&T Building formerName AT&T Building self-link
Johnson/Burgee Architects designed AT&T Building
this entity surface form: AT&T Building, New York City
Johnson/Burgee Architects notableWork AT&T Building
this entity surface form: AT&T Building, New York City
John Burgee notableWork AT&T Building
this entity surface form: AT&T Building, New York City
550 Madison Avenue formerName AT&T Building
Philip Johnson and Associates notableWork AT&T Building
this entity surface form: AT&T Building, New York City