Lever House has been hailed as an icon of the International Style since it opened in 1952. Skidmore Owings & Merrill designed a new type of modern skyscraper, with a blue-green glass and steel façade, an elevated terrace, and a lobby that extended through glass walls into a public plaza. But after 70 years of operation, some of the building’s original elements started showing their age.
Inside, mechanical systems were long past their design life. A new air blower system was installed to ensure dry conditions at the curtain wall where condensation had left moisture in the spandrels.
Historic fabric at the ground floor was deteriorating, and diminished by patchwork repairs. This project restored the entire space. The lobby’s plaster ceiling was replaced. The black limestone wall, which serves as a backdrop to the plaza and lobby has been re-honed, reset, polished, and cleaned. Stainless steel columns inside and out were restored. The white marble in the lobby and at an exterior planter was repaired or replaced in kind. The exterior paving was replaced to match the original and the interior terrazzo flooring refinished. As an ensemble, this series of repairs has renewed a sense of continuity at the ground level.
PROJECT LIST
Brookfield Properties Development
WatermanCLARK
Cosentini Associates
Dorma Kaba USA
Edgett Williams Consulting Group
EverGreene Architectural Arts
Front
Gilsanz Murray Steficek LLP
Higgins Quasebarth & Partners
Integrated Conservation Resources (ICR)
Introba
Jacobs Doland Beer
LSM
Marmol Radziner
Pavarini McGovern
Pentagram
Reed Hilderbrand
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM)
Stantec
TM Light
Trinity Consultants
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The Lucy G. Moses Preservation Awards are the New York Landmarks Conservancy’s highest honors for outstanding preservation. We are grateful for the generous support of the Henry and Lucy Moses Fund, which makes the Awards possible.
Lucy Goldschmidt Moses was a dedicated New Yorker whose generosity benefited the City for over five decades. Mrs. Moses and her husband, attorney Henry L. Moses, shared a wide range of philanthropic interests. “I don’t think we’re worth anything unless we do for others,” said Mrs. Moses in a 1983 interview with The New York Times.
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