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Lever House is an office building at 390 Park Avenue in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City that was originally the US headquarters of the soap company Lever Brothers, a subsidiary of Unilever. Constructed from 1950 to 1952, the building is 307 feet (94 m) tall and has 21 office stories topped by a triple-height mechanical section. It was designed by Gordon Bunshaft and Natalie de Blois of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill in the 20th-century modern International Style. Lever House was the second skyscraper in New York City with a glass curtain wall, after the United Nations Secretariat Building. It was nearly demolished in the 1980s before being designated as a city landmark. After the construction of Lever House, many masonry residential structures on Park Avenue in Midtown were replaced with largely commercial International-Style office buildings. Its design was also copied worldwide in buildings such as the Emek Business Center in Ankara, Turkey. (Full article...)
Edits and comments are welcome. - Dank (push to talk) 21:39, 15 October 2023 (UTC)
- @Dank, thanks for setting this up. Is there enough space to mention the fact that the building narrowly avoided demolition in the 1980s? If not, we can condense the last two sentences to "After the construction of Lever House, many masonry residential structures on Park Avenue in Midtown were replaced with largely commercial International-Style office buildings, and its design was also copied worldwide by several structures." – Epicgenius (talk) 03:06, 16 October 2023 (UTC)
- Johnboddie did most of the work on this ... he'll be back in the morning. He says he thought that section was a little involved and he wasn't sure how to cover it ... do you have a suggestion? - Dank (push to talk) 03:16, 16 October 2023 (UTC)
- Perhaps "After nearly being demolished in the 1980s, it was designated as a city landmark"? (I think we might need to leave out the National Register of Historic Places designation, since that name is quite long. The alternatives "NRHP landmark" don't make much sense to people not familiar with the NRHP, and "national landmark" can refer to a National Historic Landmark, which this is not.) – Epicgenius (talk) 13:23, 16 October 2023 (UTC)
- Makes sense to me, let's try it. - Dank (push to talk) 13:30, 16 October 2023 (UTC)
- I went with "before being" to avoid "After ... After". - Dank (push to talk) 13:34, 16 October 2023 (UTC)
- Perhaps "After nearly being demolished in the 1980s, it was designated as a city landmark"? (I think we might need to leave out the National Register of Historic Places designation, since that name is quite long. The alternatives "NRHP landmark" don't make much sense to people not familiar with the NRHP, and "national landmark" can refer to a National Historic Landmark, which this is not.) – Epicgenius (talk) 13:23, 16 October 2023 (UTC)
- Johnboddie did most of the work on this ... he'll be back in the morning. He says he thought that section was a little involved and he wasn't sure how to cover it ... do you have a suggestion? - Dank (push to talk) 03:16, 16 October 2023 (UTC)