Preservationists are pushing to landmark parts of a uniquely shaped Upper East Side building that once housed the Whitney Museum and MET Breuer before auction house Sotheby’s takes over the space.

The building, designed by Marcel Breuer and completed in 1966 for the Whitney, features a brutalist concrete and steel exterior hovering above a glass ground floor, which sharply contrasts against ...

There is no building in New York City like the Brutalist monolith designed by Marcel Breuer on Madison Avenue, formerly owned by the Whitney Museum. Its “perpetually startling” quality extends ...

The Breuer Building, designed and completed by Marcel Breuer to look like an upside-down ziggurat for the Whitney in 1966, features a brutalist concrete and steel exterior hovering above a glass ...

Marcel Breuer, to the left of then–First Lady Jackie Kennedy, smiled as the ribbon was cut at 945 Madison Avenue. The lobby where he stood is now being considered for landmark status. Photo ...

Preservationists are pushing to landmark parts of a uniquely shaped Upper East Side building that once housed the Whitney Museum and MET Breuer before auction house Sotheby’s takes over the space.