Lever House is a 307 foot tall office building at 390 Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, constructed from 1950 to 1952 and designed by Gordon Bunshaft and Natalie de Blois of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill in the International Style. It was originally the headquarters of the soap company Lever Brothers, a subsidiary of Unilever, and it was the second high rise in New York City to have a glass curtain wall, after the United Nations Secretariat Building.
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Year CreatedConstruction completed 29 April 1952; designated a New York City Landmark in 1982 Location390 Park Avenue, Manhattan, New York City, United States 1 Architectural Style Structural SystemSteel cellular beams with reinforced concrete floor plates and transverse wind bracing 1 Primary MaterialGlass and stainless steel curtain wall over a steel skeleton with reinforced concrete floor plates 1 Building Type Commissioned ByLever Brothers Company (a Unilever subsidiary) 1 Construction Height (metres) Storey Count21 usable office stories plus a triple-height mechanical penthouse Current UseMulti-tenant office building with a ground-floor restaurant and art gallery 1 Visitor AccessGround-floor plaza is a privately owned public space; the building features public art installations 1 Connections
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International Style curtain-wall skyscraper.
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Iconic International Style curtain-wall skyscraper (Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, 1952).
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Lever House is a 307-foot-tall (94 m) office building at 390 Park Avenue in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City, United States.
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1. Lever House (Wikipedia)
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Above the ground floor, all elevations of the facade contain a curtain wall with heat-absorbing glass panes and stainless steel.
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Constructed from 1950 to 1952
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Lever House is a 307-foot-tall (94 m) 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 designed by Gordon Bunshaft and Natalie de Blois of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) in the International Style, a 20th-century modern architectural style.
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Gordon Bunshaft and Natalie de Blois of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
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Lever House is a 307-foot-tall (94 m) office building at 390 Park Avenue in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City, United States.
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