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Article: The colors of money: David Chipperfield and IA's mutual-admiration collaboration at a Lever House financial-services firm.(David Chipperfield Architects)(Brief Article)
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- Interior Design
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- January 1, 2002
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WHAT BECOMES A LEGEND MOST? The double-entendre ad question aptly introduces Gordon Bunshaft's landmark 1952 Lever House, where executives at a financial-services firm were pondering their options for a space initially encompassing 40,000 square feet spread over three floors, one in the building's plinth and two in the vertical slab above. The answer turned out to be twofold. London's highly acclaimed David Chipperfield Architects, whose prior U.S. experience was limited to New York's Bryant Park hotel and Miami's Shore Club, assumed primary design responsibility. IA, based in the U.S., took the role of executive architects, providing American know-how and familiarity ...