The Architect’s Newspaper
December 1, 2023
With help from Marmol Radziner and Reed Hilderbrand, SOM’s Lever House receives a $100 million refresh
In 1952, SOM’s Lever House landed like a cool slab of wirecut soap hygienically set on a plinth along the stony, tony canyon of Park Avenue. Its post-war transcendence was widely…
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Wallpaper
November 17, 2023
Lever House in New York gets a 21st-century makeover
When Lever House opened in 1952, it was immediately received with acclaim and wonder. Commissioned by Unilever for its headquarters, the slender, 21-story blue-green monolith oriented perpendicularly to the street was the first all-glass…
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The Real Deal
November 16, 2023
Lever House inks three leases after $100M overhaul
Lever House, the landmark Park Avenue office property open for business after a $100 million redevelopment, has scored three large leases.
Brookfield Properties and WatermanClark’s property at 390 Park Avenue quietly signed…
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New York Post
November 12, 2023
Landmark Lever House boasts Park Ave. views, modern design after $100M redevelopment
Lever House, the 390 Park Ave. masterpiece that first brought curtain-wall design to commercial New York in 1952, is back in business after a two-year closure and $100 million redevelopment.
The project by owners Brookfield and WatermanCLARK is no routine restoration, but a revelation…
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New York Times
September 6, 2023
Architecture’s Second Looks, and Second Acts
In 2006, Joshua Ramus, a 36-year-old protégé of the Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas, left Koolhaas’s hugely influential firm, Office for Metropolitan Architecture, to go off on his own. In the kind of power play more typical of Hollywood talent agencies than architecture studios, he also took O.M.A.’s entire 35-person New York office with him.
What made the episode especially surprising was that Koolhaas, hardly known for a sentimental or softhearted streak, agreed to…
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The New York Times
June 14, 2023
Catering to a Fashionable Crowd
The panini arranged in soft mounds in the vitrine of Sant Ambroeus on Madison Avenue fairly ooze. There is the tuna, decadently layered with marinated artichoke; the pillowy frittata; the turkey stacked high with mozzarella and tomato and shellaced with Dijon mustard, all as savory looking as they are seductive….
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Curbed
June 9, 2023
Lever House Gets a Squeaky-Clean Restoration
If you were looking for modern Manhattan glamour in 1932, you might have checked into the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, the Park Avenue magnet for those who could still afford to glitter. Its black-tie parties, grand stairways, verdant lobbies, and high-ceilinged ballroom — Machine Age replacements for their fussy Victorian predecessors on 34th Street — were made even…
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Forbes
November 28, 2022
Elite Private Clubs Seen As Way To Lure Workers Back To Office
The dark woods, sumptuous furnishings and rarified air of private social clubs have long remained the exclusive preserve of the moneyed few. The clubs serve as a retreat from the public, a place where the well-heeled can relax among their own, ensconced safely behind walls separating them from the of banal existence of the workaday world…
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Bloomberg
October 26, 2022
NYC’s Secret Weapon to Keep Finance Elite Is Park Avenue Revamp
Two new office buildings are New York’s high-finance answer to a growing Wall Street South and remote work.
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Time
June 23, 2022
Reimagining Lever House, a NYC Landmark, for the Future of Work
In April 1952, architecture firm Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill unveiled its newest office building in New York City’s Midtown to spectators, business leaders, and fanfare from the press. ”It’s something strikingly new,” the New York Times wrote on the day of the opening…
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Commercial Insider
January 27, 2022
Brookfield Begins $100M Lever House Renovation
Lever House, an icon of midcentury architecture, is getting $100 million worth of renovations—courtesy of owners Brookfield (BN) Properties and WatermanClark. Constructed in 1952, the landmarked, 21-story office building at 390 Park Avenue was built for Lever Brothers soap company, which was relocating its headquarters from Boston. Gordon Bunshaft and Natalie de Blois of Skidmore…
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The Wall Street Journal
January 25, 2022
Park Avenue Landlords Rush to Upgrade Famous but Aging Office Buildings
Owners of Park Avenue’s office towers are injecting tens of millions of dollars into their stately postwar properties, aiming to stem the tide of tenants bolting for modern offices on Manhattan’s west side.
Lever House, a classic of the international architectural…
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