Gordon Bunshaft
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Gordon Bunshaft was an American architect, a leading proponent of modern design in the mid-twentieth century. A partner in Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Bunshaft joined the firm in 1937 and remained wit
Lever House, New York City
Bunshaft's only single-family residence, the Travertine House, later demolished
Exterior of the Hirshhorn Museum, facing Independence Avenue
The LBJ Presidential Library in Austin, Texas
Lever House
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Lever House is a 307-foot-tall office building at 390 Park Avenue in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City, United States. Constructed from 1950 to 1952, the building was de
Gordon Bunshaft
…partner in Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), Bunshaft joined the firm in 1937 and remained with it for more than 40 years. His notable buildings include Lever House in New York, the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., the…
Seen from Park Avenue and 53rd Street
The columns on Park Avenue are set 10 feet (3.0 m) behind the lot boundary to avoid interfering with the walls of the Park Avenue railroad tunnel.
Upper stories
Ground-floor plaza