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Lever House
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DESIGNER |
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MATERIALS |
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steel, glass Steel frame, glass curtain wall
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LOCATION |
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| Continent |
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North America |
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| Nation |
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 United States |
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 New York |
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 New York City |
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New York |
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 New York - Manhattan |
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Manhattan |
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390 Park Avenue at East 53rd Street, NW Corner to East 54th Street
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TYPOLOGY |
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ARCHITECTURE | Buildings for offices and professional practises
Offices
Vertical architectures
Skyscrapers
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CHRONOLOGY |
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Project |
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1950
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Realisation |
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1952 |
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AWARDS |
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| 1992 |
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| 1980 |
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Twenty-five Year Award
American Institute of Architects |
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| 1952 |
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First Honor Awards for Architecture
American Institute of Architects |
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| 1952 |
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Office of the Year Award
Administrative Management Magazine |
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| 1952 |
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Gold Medal
Architectural League of New York |
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| 1952 |
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Office of the Year Award
Office Management Magazine |
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| 1951 |
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Oscar Dooley Award
Miami University |
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BIBILIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES |
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| Nicholas Adams, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. SOM dal 1936, Mondadori Electa, Milano 2006, pp. 64-75 |
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| Martha Pollak, "La patina non si addice al curtain wall", Il giornale dell'architettura 15, febbraio 2004, p. 18 |
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| "Lever House restoration, New York. New York, USA 2001", a+u. Architecture and Urbanism 386, november 2002, pp. 58-63 |
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| Materia 33, settembre-dicembre/september-december 2000 [Architettura in acciaio/Steel architecture], pp. 24 (22-27) "saggi/essays" |
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| Judith Dupré, Skyscrapers, Black Dog & Leventhal, New York 1996, pp. 44-45 |
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| Carol Herselle Krinsky, Gordon Bunshaft of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Architectural History Foundation, New York 1988, pp. 18-25 |
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| Bruno Zevi, Spazî dell'architettura moderna, Einaudi, Torino 1973, tav. 527 [XI. Il movimento organico negli Stati Uniti] |
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| Architecture of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. 1950-1962, Frederick A. Praeger, New York 1963 |
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DIMENSIONAL
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STAFF |
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Gordon Bunshaft
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill - SOM |
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| Raymond Loewy Association |
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| Renovated in 2002, by SOM, the curtain wall was replaced with new and different materials from the original, but identical in appearance and shape. |
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