Whitney Museum, Upper East Side Building, New York, Architecture, Architect

Whitney Museum New York : Upper East Side Architecture

Marcel Breuer Building, Madison Avenue, Manhattan, USA



Whitney Museum

Address: 945 Madison Avenue, Upper East Side
Date: 1966
Architect: Marcel Breuer

This building contains a contemporary art collection of around 12,000 paintings.

19 Nov 2012 - Great Space's Oheri Otobo offers his irreverent impressions of the Whitney Museum, from its trapezoid windows to it's tank like exterior.



Credits for the video:

Toros Kose from After Effects
Art Direction from Delaine Isaac
Writing from Delaine Isaac and Oheri Otobo
Narration from Oheri Otobo



Marcel Breuer also worked on the Paris UNESCO Building

Whitney Museum Architect - Marcel Breuer

New Project:

Whitney Museum of American Art building, Gansevoort St, Meatpacking District, Downtown Manhattan
2008-
Renzo Piano

Whitney Downtown Museum - Design Proposal
[2010]
Axis Mundi
Whitney Downtown Museum
image from architects
Whitney Downtown Museum

Marcel Breuer is also famous for having designed beautiful, simple chairs (I'm sitting on one as I write this: black leather and stainless steel tubular frame, a classic!) - similar in style to the Modern furniture of architects Gropius and Mies van der Rohe



 




New York Walking Tours

Key New York Buildings close to the Whitney Museum

Seagram Building
375 Park Avenue, New York
1958
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Architect; Philip Johnson
Seagram Building

Guggenheim Museum
1071 Fifth Avenue, East Harlem, New York
1959
Frank Lloyd Wright Architects
Guggenheim Museum New York

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New York Architecture - Selection

Guggenheim Museum, East Harlem
Frank Lloyd Wright Architects
Guggenheim Museum New York
photo : David M. Heald, © SRGF, New York
Guggenheim Museum

56 Leonard Street
Herzog & de Meuron
56 Leonard Street Manhattan
image © Herzog & de Meuron, Basel, 2008
56 Leonard Street

Rockefeller Center
Raymond Hood, Architect
Rockefeller Center Manhattan
photograph © Andrew McRae
Rockefeller Center New York

American Museum Buildings
American Museum Building
photograph © Aislinn Weidele/Polshek Partnership Architects

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Whitney Museum - Website: www.whitney.org

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