The Architect · Lina · New York
Lever House
Read it against the Seagram across the street and you have the whole argument of postwar modernism in one intersection. SOM lifted the slab on a horizontal base to open a plaza, filled the lot with glass instead of masonry — radical in 1952. The recently restored lobby is worth a look.
SOM's 1952 green-glass slab — the building that taught Park Avenue to float.
— Lina, The Architect
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