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Bunshaft was a modernist whose early influences included Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier.

His best-known design is the Lever House , built as a corporate headquarters for the soap company Lever Brothers.

In the 1950s, Bunshaft was hired by the State Department's Office of Foreign Building Operations as a collaborator on the design for several US consulateThe term Consulate can refer to: the office or the period in office of a consul a diplomatic consulate the French Consulate which governed between 1799 and 1804 a brand of menthol cigarettes Consulate.s in GermanyThe Federal Republic of Germany ( German: Bundesrepublik Deutschland is one of the world's leading industrialized countries, located in the middle of the European Union. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark and the Baltic Sea, to the east.

Buildings

• 1951 - Lever House - New York, New York
• 1963 - Beinecke LibraryAcademic libraries Yale University's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library was a 1963 gift of the Beinecke family. The building, designed by architect Gordon Bunshaft, of the firm of Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill, is the largest building in the world - Yale UniversityYale University is a private university in New Haven, Connecticut. Founded in 1701, Yale is the third oldest American collegiate institution (or fourth, if St. John's College, Annapolis is included) and one of the most prestigious in the world. The Univer, New Haven, ConnecticutThis article is about the city in Connecticut. See New Haven (disambiguation) for other places of the same name. Harkness Tower, part of the Yale University campus located in downtown New Haven New Haven is the second-largest city in Connecticut, and is l
• 1965 - Banque Lambert - BrusselsBrussels ( French: Bruxelles Dutch: Brussel German: Brussel is a major city in Belgium and its capital. Overview Brussels is first of all a city located in the middle of Belgium and its capital, but it sometimes also refers to the main municipality of the
• 1971 - Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library - Austin, TexasAustin is the capital of the state of Texas, within the United States of America. As of Census 2000, the population of 656,562 people (metro area population of over 1 million people) made Austin the fourth-largest city in Texas (behind Houston, Dallas, an
• 1974 - Solow Building - 9 West 57th Street, New York, New York
• 1974 - Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden - Washington, D.C.
• 1983 - National Commercial Bank - Jeddah, Saudi Arabia