Designed in 1966 by architect Marcel Breuer as a storage location for The Whitney Museum of American Art, 945 Madison Avenue—the boxy, brutalist structure situated nearby to Manhattan’s Museum Mile—has quite the provenance. Tenancy of the Breuer Building has changed hands a number of times in recent years, including with today’s announcement that global auction house Sotheby’s would purchase the building.
Breuer won the commission to design the building beating out more established architects of the time including Philip Johnson, Louis Kahn, and I. M. Pei. His design is often likened to an inverted ziggurat, featuring several cantilevers and a notable lack of windows.
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