Take Marcel Breuer’s design for the Whitney Museum of American Art. When it first opened in 1966, architecture critic Ada ...

In 1961, Breuer was tasked by the Whitney's board to create a building on Madison Avenue and 76 th Street that was “assertive, even ‘controversial.’” ...

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 ...

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 modernist Breuer building, formerly home to the Whitney Museum of American Art and purchased by Sotheby’s auction house in 2023, on Tuesday had much of its interior designated as a landmark ...

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.

The ex-Whitney, a.k.a. the ex–Met Breuer and ex–Frick Madison, is a concrete-and-granite classic designed in a polite form of brutalism appropriate for the Upper East Side.

The auction house acquired the building in a private deal from the Whitney Museum of American Art, which was located at the Breuer before its move to the Meatpacking District in 2015. Since then ...