Posted Sep 17, 2024, 12:34 AM
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Great White North
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Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Niagara Region
Posts: 15,486
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Originally Posted by hipster duck
I don't think people think about it much today, but Gordon Bunshaft's One Chase Manhattan Plaza, which topped out in 1959, and was the first tower in Lower Manhattan to rub shoulders with pre-Depression era giants like 70 Pine and 40 Wall.
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Going off topic with Bunshaft
Gordon Bunshaft was born and raised in Buffalo, NY, graduating from the gorgeous c.1904 Lafayette High School on Buffalo's West Side, before continuing his education at MIT.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Bunshaft
After achieving acclaim as an architect he was tasked with the expansion of Buffalo's then Albright art gallery of neoclassical design, with the modern Knox family addition (with the 2023 Gundlach expansion now called Buffalo AKG Art Museum). The controversial "black box" Knox addition officially opened in January 1962.
 January 1962 w/former sculpture court
Buffalo News photo

1962 photo from Buffalo History museum
https://buffaloah.com/a/elmwd/1285/add/
Bunshaft was clearly influenced by Mies van der Rohe, among others.
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