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	Skyscrapers - Great Buildings Online
		Chrysler Building, by William Van Alen, at New York, New York, 1928 to 1930.
		Monadnock Building, by Burnham and Root, at Chicago, Illinois, 1889 to 1891.
		Woolworth Building, by Cass Gilbert, at New York, New York, 1910 to 1913.
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	Seagram Information
		The Seagram Company Ltd. was a large corporation headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, Canada that was the largest distiller of alcoholic beverages in the world.
		Although Seagram acquired a 32.2% stake in Conoco, DuPont was brought in as a white knight and entered the bidding war.
		The original Seagram distillery in Waterloo existed for several years as the Seagram Museum before being forced to close in 1997 for lack of funds.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Seagram (716 words)

	Seagram Building
		The Seagram Building is a skyscraper in New York City.
		It was designed as the headquarters for the distillers Joseph Seagram's & Sons, thanks to the foresight of Phyllis Lambert, the daughter of Samuel Bronfman, Seagram's CEO.
		The Seagram Building is located at 375 Park Avenue, in Midtown Manhattan.
	www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/s/se/seagram_building.html (152 words)

	His work preserves modernist architecture - The Boston Globe
		The Yale building is an example: It suffered serious damage in a 1969 fire of mysterious origins, then was subjected to a number of unsympathetic renovations, and is only now being restored to Rudolph's original design, in a Brutalist mode that was highly controversial.
		He lovingly captured the building's concrete facing and made the structure into a play of planes that appear to have slid together for the moment.
		Wright countered that the building was the museum's most important work of art, setting off the art vs. architecture argument that, a half-century later, is still going strong.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/living/articles/2004/06/27/his_work_preserves_modernist_architecture (1025 words)

	Seagram Building - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Seagram Building is a skyscraper in New York City.
		It was designed as the headquarters for the Canadian distillers Joseph E. Seagram's and Sons, thanks to the foresight of Phyllis Lambert, the daughter of Samuel Bronfman, Seagram's CEO.
		The Seagram building (and virtually all large buildings of the time) was built of a steel frame, from which non-structural glass walls were hung.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Seagram_Building (734 words)

	NEW YORK SCRAPERS - INTERNATIONAL STYLE I
		The building was also revolutionary in being the first skyscraper to utilize the clause in city zoning regulations that allowed a building to rise straight up without setbacks if it occupied only a quarter of the plot.
		And because the building preceded the legislation of plaza bonuses (only coming to force as a law in December 1961), its bulk was made possible by using only a quarter of the plot for the tower footprint, thus giving it unlimited height as per the 1916 zoning.
		The buildings employ a similar style of fl steel spandrels and soaring white mullions framing the dark-tinted glass -- although here the vertical mullions alternate with narrower fl ones, as opposed to their more "dominating" presence on the neighbouring building's facade -- and the building is at 209.5 m of approximately the same size.
	www.greatgridlock.net /NYC/nyc3.html (8620 words)

	Seagram Building New York by Mies van der Rohe
		Much of the building's success comes from its elegant proportions, and its relation to the overall site: the building is set back from the street by ninety feet, and in from the side by thirty.
		The building's external faces are given their character by the quality of the materials used - the tinted glass and the bronze 'I-beams' applied all the way up the building.
		The building is on the east side of Park Avenue between 52nd and 53rd Streets.
	www.galinsky.com /buildings/seagram (0 words)

	The Midtown Book - The Seagram Building
		The Seagram Building is the realization, some three decades late, of Mies van der Rohe's dream of a glass-covered, high rise office tower that would provide a stunning monument to the International Style's faith in simplicity and clarity.
		The Seagram Building was designed in an age that also did not pay much heed to the needs of the disabled and the plaza and the building's side entrances are raised several steps from the sidewalk.
		Interestingly, the building's form is not as simple as the Park Avenue facade might indicate as the central portion of the east facade protrudes considerably from the slab.
	www.thecityreview.com /park375.html (0 words)

	Architecture of New York City - Great Buildings Online
		Daily News Building, by Raymond Hood, at New York, New York, 1930 (circa).
		Ford Foundation Building, by Roche-Dinkeloo, at New York, New York, 1963 to 1968.
		New York Herald Building, by McKim, Mead, and White, at New York, New York, 1894.
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	New York Architecture Images- THE SEAGRAM BUILDING
		The plan of the building is based on a 8.50 m grid, pursued to unprecedented Miesian accuracy.
		The building was, notably, the first with floor-to-ceiling windows, making the wall a true curtain of glass, as foreseen by the visionaries of Modern Movement, like Mies himself.
		The fame of the Lever House in the 1950s was matched by the Seagram Building in the 1960s.
	www.nyc-architecture.com /UES/UES002.htm (736 words)

	Seagram Building - a-wiki (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Seagram building is one of New Yorks best examples of a glass-and-steel International style skyscraper.
		When completed in 1958 the Seagram Building was the most expensive skyscraper ever built in the world.
		The building was the first high rise to have glazing from floor to ceiling.
	www.a-wiki.com /index.php/Seagram_Building (124 words)

	Seagram Building reborn as Martlet House
		Seagram Building reborn as Martlet House McGill University
		The unique office building was donated to the university in 2002 by Vivendi Universal, the global media and communications giant, which acquired the property after merging with Seagram, run by Montreal's Bronfman family.
		With the Seagram sign now off the building constructed in 1928, the university pledged to preserve the structure's limestone façade as well as the second-floor boardroom.
	www.mcgill.ca /reporter/36/13/martlethouse (689 words)

	Seagram - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Joseph E. Seagram became a partner in 1869 and sole owner in 1883, and the company became known as Joseph E. Seagram and Sons.
		Although Seagram acquired a 32.2% stake in Conoco, DuPont was brought in as a white knight by the oil company and entered the bidding war.
		In 1997, the Seagram Museum, formerly the original Seagram distillery in Waterloo, was forced to close due to lack of funds.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Seagram (805 words)

	The New York Observer Real Estate: Seagram Switch (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Last night, Community Board 5 narrowly passed a resolution supporting the transfer of air rights from the iconic Seagram Building, at 375 Park Avenue, to a new development at 610 Lexington Avenue (the transparent building in the photo of the developer's model).
		RFR Realty LLC is the owner of both the Seagram Building and the property to be developed, currently home to to a YWCA that will be demolished to make way for the new 257,000-square-foot, 62-story building, which will be 709 feet high.
		A representative of architectural firm Foster and Partners, which is designing the building, told the community board that the building was designed to fit in seamlessly with the surrounding buildings with its bold mullions and toned-down spandrels to emphasize its vertical sweep.
	therealestate.observer.com /2005/11/seagram-switch.html (315 words)

	SurfWax: News, Reviews and Articles On Seagram Building
		By the late 1940s he also contributed to the development of the curtain wall building, skyscrapers with glass facades and supported by their inner core, which became the default architectural style for postwar corporate headquarters, like the Lever House and the Seagram Building in New York.
		The United Nations Secretariat Building is so old that it is all but falling apart, Lever House has already had its entire curtain wall replaced, and the Seagram Building is as revered as the Dakota...
		Paul Gapp, the architectural critic of the Chicago Tribune, said the building "overnight transfused postmodernism from the lunatic vein into the corporate mainstream." Less enthusiastic was the Village Voice newspaper, in which Michael Sorkin described the tower as the "the Seagram building with ears.".
	news.surfwax.com /architecture/files/Seagram_Building.html (1808 words)

	Seagram Building - Landmarks - New York Magazine
		Commissioned in 1958 by the Seagram Company to be used as its headquarters, the structure was designed by prolific office architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe while the lobby and other internal aspects were designed by Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate, Philip Johnson.
		Prior to the Seagram Building’s construction, all buildings had to recess at a certain height, which was determined by the total height of the structure.
		Seagram’s smooth surface design (unique at the time) incited tempers about maintaining the integrity of the New York skyline.
	www.newyorkmetro.com /listings/attraction/seagram_building (389 words)

	New York City Apartments > CITY REALTY.COM > New Developments
		RFR Realty LLC recently bought the mid-rise building at 610 Lexington Avenue, the former home of the YWCA, on the southwest corner of 53rd Street, cattycorner to Citicorp Center, which is 915 feet high.
		A spokesperson for the Historic Districts Council, however, told the commission that "the new, enormous building" will have "a negative impact" on the Seagram Building and that her organization therefore does not support the project.
		Foster said that if the building were erected "as of right" it would be about 811 feet high, but he termed that scheme "not entirely successful." Although the north and south facades of the tower will be straight, the east and west facades will have three 3-facet bays, Mr.
	www.cityrealty.com /new_developments/news.cr?noteid=6041 (1286 words)

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		For example, the I-beams of the Farnsworth House are both structural and expressive, whereas in the Seagram Building they are attached to exterior as symbols for what is necessarily invisible behind fireproof cladding.
		Although the house was built to resist floods in 1951, building in the surrounding area has caused higher flood levels in recent decades.
		United States that Mies had his most prolific period, both in terms of the number of projects he was able to build and in terms of the number of followers and disciples he influenced, either directly or indirectly.
	www.farnsworthhouse.org /history.htm (0 words)

	Seagram Building - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe - Great Buildings Online
		"The inescapable drama of the Seagram Building in a city already dramatic with crowded skyscrapers lies in its unbroken height of bronze and dark glass juxtaposed to a granite-paved plaza below.
		The siting of the building on Park Avenue, an indulgence in open space unprecedented in midtown Manhattan real estate, has given that building an aura of special domain.
		When the outer walls are put in place, the structural system, which is the basis of all artistic design, is hidden by a chaos of meaningless and trivial forms...Instead of trying to solve old problems with these old forms we should develop new forms from the very nature of the new problems.
	www.greatbuildings.com /buildings/Seagram_Building.html (0 words)

	Philip Johnson - Great Buildings Online
		Epidemiology and Public Healh Building, at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 1965.
		Building on the MOMA show, Johnson and Henry-Russell Hitchcock codified the principles of modern architecture in the book The International Style: Architecture since 1922.
		It was a quest that would begin with highly abstracted versions of Classicism in the 1960's and culminate in a much more literal use of the architectural forms of the past in his revivalist skyscrapers of the 1980's.
	www.greatbuildings.com /architects/Philip_Johnson.html (0 words)

	Seagram Building (Site not responding. Last check: )
		This steel skeleton framed skyscraper, headquarters of the Seagram Liquor Company, established the basic form of the corporate tower for years to come.
		Designed by a famous European architect who immigrated to the United States at the beginning of World War II, this building epitomizes the importation of modernist ideals from Europe to the United States.
		Following these premises, the Seagram Building is meant to confirm Mies' assertion that when modern industrialized building technology is truthfully expressed, architecture becomes transcendent.
	www.nyu.edu /classes/finearts/nyc/park/seagram.html (277 words)

	Daniel's Manhattan Architecture - Seagram Building
		The only building in New York City designed by architectural master Mies van der Rohe, the Seagram Building, epitomizes the ideals of the modernist movement so pitifully exhibited by most other modern skyscrapers.
		Essentially a classical building, the Seagram Building is set back on a broad plaza.
		The large plaza (the building is set back a full one- hundred feet from Park Avenue), with its two rectangular pools and marble parapet, is an entirely pleasing place to be given its sparseness, a trick that few other modern plazas have accomplished.
	users.commkey.net /daniel/seagram.htm (270 words)

	Seagram Building, New York
		The Seagram Building is considered the finest of the Modernist style of the fifties: two rectangles of bronze and glass that allow light to pour in.
		Essentially a classical building, it is set back on a broad plaza bordered by a marble parapet and inlaid with two rectangular pools.
		The design introduced a new idea: set back the building 100 feet from the street, Park Avenue, to allow a empty, yet tranquil plaza.
	www.planetware.com /new-york-city/new-york-seagram-building-us-ny-seagram.htm (180 words)

	ArchitectureWeek - News - Prizing Contrasts - 2006.0308
		Lambert is perhaps best known for her work as planning director for the Seagram Building, the subject of her acceptance speech.
		The thrust of her speech was that Mies van de Rohe changed the appearance of New York City and world architecture with the Seagram Building.
		Lambert's speech was drawn from her forthcoming book on the Seagram Building and was thoughtful, carefully researched, and intellectually rigorous.
	www.architectureweek.com /2006/0308/news_1-2.html (1051 words)

	Seagram Building (Site not responding. Last check: )
		'Seagram Building' blev opført af Mies van der Rohe og Philip Johnson i fællesskab i årene 1954 til 1958.
		Med sin ubrudte højde af bronze og glas mod den granit-belagte plads forneden udspiller 'Seagram Building' et dramastisk møde mellem den rene konstruktions spinkle styrke og grundens massive fundament.
		We can see the new structural principles most clearly when we use glass in place of the outer walls, which is feasible today since in a skeleton building these outer walls do not carry weight.
	www.itu.dk /people/sha/bauhaus/bauhausarkitekter/seagram_mies.html (178 words)

	Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886 - 1969) Der Architekt : amerikanischer Lebensabschnitt (1954-1968)
		The facades of these buildings are noted for their walls of glass which integrate the interior and exterior spaces.
		Seagram Building, New York NY photographed 1958 by Ezra Stoller.
		Seagram Building aus Wolfgang Leonhard's Hochhäuser and Berge
	www.tu-harburg.de /b/kuehn/lm31.html (1381 words)

	Diller + Scofidio - The Brasserie :: arcspace.com
		Pearwood skins in the rear dining room peel from the plaster ceiling and wall to become free-floating partitions which delaminate into illuminated veneers.
		While the Seagram Building is the premiere 20th century glass tower, the restaurant, lodged in the stone base of the building, is entirely without glass or view.
		Dining tables of poured resin are formed around stainless steel structural supports that remain visible through the material; tripods steel supports that carry bar seats injected with medical gel.
	www.arcspace.com /architects/DillerScofidio/Brasserie (537 words)

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