Seagram Building
The Seagram Building located at 375 Park Avenue, between 52nd Street and 53rd Street in Midtown Manhattan, was designed by the German architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, in collaboration with the American Philip Johnson and was completed in 1958. The Seagram Building was meant to confirm Mies' assertion that when modern industrialized building technology is truthfully expressed, architecture becomes transcendent. Ironically, the luxurious materials used (marble for the plaza benches, travertine for the lobby walls and floor, tinted glass and bronze for the curtain wall) and the carefully controlled customized details that pervade the building remind the viewer that this building is far from being the simple result of rationalized industrial production and construction techniques. Much copied but not matched, the Seagram Building is generally recognized as the finest example of skyscrapers in the International Style (text from New York Architecture Images).
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