# Gordon Bunshaft
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gordon bunshaft, (May 9, 1909 – August 6, 1990), was an American architect, a leading proponent of modern design in the mid-twentieth century. A partner in the architectural firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), Bunshaft joined in 1937 and remained for more than 40 years. The long list of his notable buildings includes 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 National Commercial Bank in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, 140 Broadway (Marine Midland Grace Trust Co.) and Manufacturers Hanover Trust Branch Bank in New York; the last was the first post-war "transparent" bank on the East Coast.
City of the Future. The World in 2050
Guest speaker:Mary Quinn holds a Bachelor of Science in Interior Architecture from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville School of Architecture. She is detail-oriented, collaborative & enjoy's problem-solving. Mary has worked on a variety of projects at various scales, everything from programming …
Nicholas Adams
Beinecke Rare Books Library, Yale Universiy
February 5, 2020.
Nicholas Adams discusses his biography of the 20th century architect whose work defined the built environment of corporate modernism: Gordon Bunshaft and SOM: Building Corporate Modernism (Yale University Press 2019).
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Lever House | Carol Krinsky
Architectural historian Carol Krinsky speaks about the history of Lever House. Midtown Manhattan's Lever House marked a watershed in American architecture when completed in 1952. Located on the west side of Park Avenue between 53rd and 54th Streets, the corporate headquarters—with its façade of blu…
Harry Bertoia, Olivia Block
Episode No. 535 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features curator and historian Marin Sullivan and artist Olivia Block.
Along with Jed Morse, Sullivan is the co-curator of "Harry Bertoia: Sculpting Mid-Century Modern Life," the first American museum retrospective of Bertoia's work in over 50 years…
Lever House
Welcome to featured Wiki of the Day where we read the summary of the featured Wikipedia article every day.The featured article for Saturday, 16 December 2023 is Lever House.Lever House is a 307-foot-tall (94 m) office building at 390 Park Avenue in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York Cit…
Paul Goldberger on Architecture as an Act of Optimism
In the eyes of the architecture critic Paul Goldberger, a building is a living, breathing thing, a structure that can have a spirit and even, at its best, a soul. It’s this optimistic perspective that has given Goldberger’s writing a certain ineffable, captivating quality across his prolific career…
New skyscraper bets on private club instead of retail
A stretch of Fifth Avenue near Grand Central Terminal could be said to be both the city’s spine and heart, especially for retailers: A storefront on the bustling Midtown portion of the famous thoroughfare once seemed a no-lose proposition.
But recent years have roughed up the strip. Vacancies, some…
270 Park Avenue (1960–2021)
Welcome to featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia's finest articles.The featured article for Thursday, 13 November 2025, is 270 Park Avenue (1960–2021).270 Park Avenue, also known as the JPMorgan Chase Tower and the Union Carbide Building, was a skyscraper in the Midt…
Lever House
Lever House considered the 1st modernist skyscraper in New York was commissioned by Charles Luckman who was President (and trained as an architect). Rather than make a wedding cake tower as the 1916 New York Zoning Code required for tall buildings, Gordon Bunshaft's act of genius was to set the th…
Manufacturers Trust Company Building
Welcome to featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia's finest articles.The featured article for Monday, 13 July 2026, is Manufacturers Trust Company Building.The Manufacturers Trust Company Building, also known as 510 Fifth Avenue, is a commercial building at the southwe…
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