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...arts center and Graham Gund Associates, Inc., the architects and developers for the project, leased the old courthouse from Middlesex County in 1981. The historical landmark was designed in 1814 by the architect Bullfinch, who also designed the State Capitol downtown, and it has since been renovated several times...
...architect's model on display last week at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art looked rather like an upended radiator. But check the price tag. According to a number of guesstimates, the headquarters skyscraper of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corp., scheduled for completion in 1985, could eventually cost $920 million, making it the most expensive single building in history. At 41 stories, it would cost only a little less than the $1.1 billion for the entire World Trade Center complex, with its twin towers of 110 stories each and its thousands of offices, including those...
...contributed most to the spiraling costs was the double-digit inflation changes of that the got past out of couple hand of after the design was approved in November 1980. Instead of after the design was approved in November 1980. Instead of a simple concrete floor, for example, the architect, London's Foster Associates, suggested an opaque glass central plaza under the building that would glow, as Munden puts it, "like a carpet of light." The bank's directors also showed interest in a giant, mirrored sun scoop to funnel sunshine into the building's interior (cost...
Charles Luckman, Lever Bros.' president from 1946 to 1950, and an architect, felt strongly that the era needed an architectural expression. He commissioned Gordon Bunshaft of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill to find it for Lever's new headquarters on Park Avenue between East 53rd and East 54th streets. The inspiration for Bunshaft, who later built the glass-walled PepsiCo, Inc., building in New York City and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., was the International Style. It was the architecture of functionalism that had originated in Europe before World War II and had been introduced...
...these insights came later. In 1952 Lever House was universally praised. On Park Avenue at present, its quality is surpassed only by Mies van der Rohe's Seagram Building, one block away. Said Architect Eero Saarinen: "Bunshaft should be covered with laurels. He has created one of the finest buildings of our time...