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Ford Foundation Building

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The Ford Foundation Building is a twelve-story office building in East Midtown Manhattan, completed in 1967 and designed in a late modernist style by the architect Kevin Roche together with his engineering partner John Dinkeloo, commissioned as the headquarters of the Ford Foundation, then the largest private philanthropic foundation in the United States. Its defining feature is a vast glass-enclosed atrium garden rising the full height of the building, planted with mature trees and shrubs, around which the office floors are arranged so that most workspaces look inward onto the greenery rather than outward onto the street. The building was an early and influential example of using a large interior atrium as the organizing space of an office building, a device many later corporate headquarters would imitate. Its combination of a plain granite and glass exterior with a lushly planted interior core made it one of the most admired corporate office buildings of its era.

Facts
Building Type
Office Building 1
Location
East Midtown Manhattan, New York City, United States 1
Completed Year
1967 1
Completed Year
1968 2
Height (m)
53 1
Classification
Standing Status
Standing 1
Building Type
Building Type (category)
Commercial / Shop 2
Connections

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Commercial Property, Concepts

Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.

In Style

Modernist Architecture, Styles and Movements
Source Wikipedia: Ford Foundation Center for Social Justice

Uses Element

Concrete, Elements and Materials
Source Wikidata: Ford Foundation Building
In the Other Atlases
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Ford Foundation Center for Social Justice
  • Lead paragraph 1, sentence 1, type clause
    12-story office building
  • Lead paragraph 1, sentence 1, place clause
    East Midtown Manhattan, New York City, United States
  • Lead paragraph 1, sentence 2
    Completed in 1967
  • Architecture
    reaches 174 feet (53 m)
  • Entity description and the lead/infobox of the Wikipedia article
    The Ford Foundation Building is a twelve-story office building in East Midtown Manhattan, completed in 1967 and designed in a late modernist style by the architect Kevin Roche together with his engineering partner John Dinkeloo, commissioned as the headquarters of the Ford Foundation, then the largest private philanthropic foundation in the United States. Its defining feature is a vast glass-enclosed atrium garden rising the full height of the building, planted with mature trees and shrubs, around which the office floors are arranged so that most workspaces look inward onto the greenery rather than outward onto the street. The building was an early and influential example of using a large interior atrium as the organizing space of an office building, a device many later corporate headquarters would imitate. Its combination of a plain granite and glass exterior with a lushly planted interior core made it one of the most admired corporate office buildings of its era.
  • In Style: Modernist Architecture, Infobox, architectural_style
    architectural_style: Late Modernism
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2. Wikidata: Ford Foundation Building
  • Wikidata Q5467785, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
  • Wikidata Q5467785, P571 claim (w-bbfill-artsarchag-0926)
  • Uses Element: Concrete, Infobox material field: Concrete and steel frame
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