Sep 19, 2023
Lever House, the landmark building designed by Gordon Bunshaft and Natalie de Blois of Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill, in 1952. At Park Avenue and 53rd Street, it changed the nature of the midtown part of the avenue from one occupied by apartment buildings for the wealthy to one lined with glass-fronted office buildings. In the 1980s it was designated a city landmark and added to the National Register of Historic Places.
Photo: André Kertész via the Bruce Silverstein Gallery