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2 unusual facts about Gordon Bunshaft


Elizabeth Weiffenbach

Gordon Bunshaft (class of 1928), noted twentieth-century architect;

Sheldon Solow

In the 1970s, in collaboration with architect Gordon Bunshaft, Solow built a 50-story office building at 9 West 57th Street.


Architecture of Texas

In Austin, Gordon Bunshaft's Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum (also a Pritzker Prize winner) is particularly noteworthy, while Steven Holl, Robert A. M. Stern, Richard Meier, and César Pelli are other architect legends who designed buildings that grace the Dallas and Houston areas.

Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations

In the 1950s, it achieved a high profile by hiring well-known modernist architects like Ralph Rapson, Harrison & Abramovitz, and Gordon Bunshaft.

Campus of the University of Massachusetts Amherst

The school has several buildings (constructed in the 1960s and 70s) of importance in the Modernist style, including the Murray D. Lincoln Campus Center and Hotel designed by Marcel Breuer, the Southwest Residential Area designed by Hugh Stubbins Jr, The Fine Arts Center by Kevin Roche, the W.E.B. Du Bois Library by Edward Durell Stone, and Warren McGuirk Alumni Stadium by Gordon Bunshaft of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill.


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Daryl Kerrigan

Her vision was evident in the shows which were legendary in fashion lore: An empty swimming pool in the LES; the space now known as “Capitale” when it was a working bank; the roof of Gordon Bunshaft’s Lever House; on top of a flatbed truck, in the Gagosian Gallery on 21st Street when it was a parking garage – Joey Ramone attended this show to hear his music played.