{"id":6,"date":"2012-09-29T23:07:21","date_gmt":"2012-09-29T23:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulpiazzaarchitect.com\/home\/?p=6"},"modified":"2020-07-25T11:08:10","modified_gmt":"2020-07-25T15:08:10","slug":"leverhouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulpiazzaarchitect.com\/home\/2012\/09\/29\/leverhouse\/","title":{"rendered":"Lever House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/paulpiazzaarchitect.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Night-LeverHse.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7 size-large\" title=\"Night-LeverHse\" src=\"http:\/\/paulpiazzaarchitect.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Night-LeverHse-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/paulpiazzaarchitect.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Night-LeverHse-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/paulpiazzaarchitect.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Night-LeverHse-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/paulpiazzaarchitect.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Night-LeverHse.jpg 1944w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Lever House<\/strong>, designed by\u00a0<a title=\"Gordon Bunshaft\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gordon_Bunshaft\">Gordon Bunshaft<\/a>\u00a0of\u00a0<a title=\"Skidmore, Owings and Merrill\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Skidmore,_Owings_and_Merrill\">Skidmore, Owings and Merrill<\/a>\u00a0and located at 390\u00a0<a title=\"Park Avenue (Manhattan)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Park_Avenue_(Manhattan)\">Park Avenue<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0<a title=\"New York City\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_York_City\">New York City<\/a>, is a seminal\u00a0<a title=\"Glass box\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Glass_box\">glass-box skyscraper<\/a>\u00a0built in the\u00a0<a title=\"International style (architecture)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/International_style_(architecture)\">International style<\/a>\u00a0according to the design principles of\u00a0<a title=\"Ludwig Mies van der Rohe\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ludwig_Mies_van_der_Rohe\">Ludwig Mies van der Rohe<\/a>. Completed in 1952, it was the first\u00a0<a title=\"Curtain wall\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Curtain_wall\">curtain wall<\/a>\u00a0skyscraper in New York City, although not the first in the United States.<sup id=\"cite_ref-2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lever_House#cite_note-2\">[3]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0The 307-foot-tall (94\u00a0m) building<sup id=\"cite_ref-emp_0-1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lever_House#cite_note-emp-0\">[1]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0features an innovative courtyard and public space.<\/p>\n<p><em>(description from Wikipedia)<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_274\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-274\" style=\"width: 768px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/paulpiazzaarchitect.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMG_0615.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-274 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/paulpiazzaarchitect.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMG_0615-1024x575.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0615\" width=\"768\" height=\"431\" srcset=\"https:\/\/paulpiazzaarchitect.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMG_0615-1024x575.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/paulpiazzaarchitect.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMG_0615-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-274\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Lever House Courtyard exhibits temporary sculptures throughout the year<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/paulpiazzaarchitect.com\/home\/2012\/09\/29\/leverhouse\/leverhouse-1030399\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1116\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1116\" src=\"http:\/\/paulpiazzaarchitect.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/LeverHouse-1030399-769x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1023\" srcset=\"https:\/\/paulpiazzaarchitect.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/LeverHouse-1030399-769x1024.jpg 769w, https:\/\/paulpiazzaarchitect.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/LeverHouse-1030399-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/paulpiazzaarchitect.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/LeverHouse-1030399-768x1023.jpg 768w, https:\/\/paulpiazzaarchitect.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/LeverHouse-1030399-980x1305.jpg 980w, https:\/\/paulpiazzaarchitect.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/LeverHouse-1030399-72x96.jpg 72w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/paulpiazzaarchitect.com\/home\/2012\/09\/29\/leverhouse\/leverhouseup-bw-1030419\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1117\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1117\" src=\"http:\/\/paulpiazzaarchitect.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/LeverHouseUP-BW-1030419-1024x769.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"577\" srcset=\"https:\/\/paulpiazzaarchitect.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/LeverHouseUP-BW-1030419-1024x769.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/paulpiazzaarchitect.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/LeverHouseUP-BW-1030419-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/paulpiazzaarchitect.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/LeverHouseUP-BW-1030419-768x577.jpg 768w, https:\/\/paulpiazzaarchitect.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/LeverHouseUP-BW-1030419-980x736.jpg 980w, https:\/\/paulpiazzaarchitect.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/LeverHouseUP-BW-1030419-2000x1500.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/paulpiazzaarchitect.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/LeverHouseUP-BW-1030419-128x96.jpg 128w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"861\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/paulpiazzaarchitect.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/NYC-LeverHouseUp-BW-REV-861x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/paulpiazzaarchitect.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/NYC-LeverHouseUp-BW-REV-861x1024.jpg 861w, https:\/\/paulpiazzaarchitect.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/NYC-LeverHouseUp-BW-REV-252x300.jpg 252w, https:\/\/paulpiazzaarchitect.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/NYC-LeverHouseUp-BW-REV-768x913.jpg 768w, https:\/\/paulpiazzaarchitect.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/NYC-LeverHouseUp-BW-REV-1292x1536.jpg 1292w, https:\/\/paulpiazzaarchitect.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/NYC-LeverHouseUp-BW-REV-1723x2048.jpg 1723w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 861px) 100vw, 861px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lever House, designed by\u00a0Gordon Bunshaft\u00a0of\u00a0Skidmore, Owings and Merrill\u00a0and located at 390\u00a0Park Avenue\u00a0in\u00a0New York City, is a seminal\u00a0glass-box skyscraper\u00a0built in the\u00a0International style\u00a0according to the design principles of\u00a0Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Completed in 1952, it was the first\u00a0curtain wall\u00a0skyscraper in New York City, although not the first in the United States.[3]\u00a0The 307-foot-tall (94\u00a0m) building[1]\u00a0features an innovative &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":231,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,5],"tags":[54,53,15,52,32,10,56,55],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulpiazzaarchitect.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulpiazzaarchitect.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulpiazzaarchitect.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulpiazzaarchitect.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulpiazzaarchitect.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/paulpiazzaarchitect.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1211,"href":"https:\/\/paulpiazzaarchitect.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions\/1211"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulpiazzaarchitect.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulpiazzaarchitect.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulpiazzaarchitect.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulpiazzaarchitect.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}