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Lever House

P Designed by Gordon Bunshaft and Natalie de Blois of the Skidmore architectural firm, Owings and Merrill, it was built between 1950 and 1952 according to the architectural standards of the International Style, anticipating another important expression of this current, the nearby Seagram Building designed by Mies van der Rohe in 1958. It is 94 metres high for 24 floors, has a main vertical structure in the form of a parallelepiped that rests asymmetrically on a larger building that extends over the entire surface of the lot and a single storey high supported by a number of steel bearing pillars that create an open courtyard. The innovative curtain wall method was used for the external walls, a system of large windows, already tried and tested in the United Nations Secretariat Building, which completely covered the facade.
It was designed for the British soap industry Lever Brothers.

References

Kenneth T. Jackson, Lisa Keller, Nancy Flood. The Encyclopedia of New York City: Second Edition. Yale University Press, 2010. pp. 735-736
Francis Morrone. The Architectural Guidebook to New York City . Gibbs Smith, 2002. pp. 167-169
Lever House (Wikipedia)

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Lever House (SOM)