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seagram guilding

1. SEAGRAM
BUILDING
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

3. ABOUT BUILDING
■TheSeagram Buildingis askyscraperat 375Park Avenue,
betweenEast 52ndand53rd Streets, inMidtown
Manhattan,New York City. The integral plaza, building, stone
faced lobby and distinctive glass and bronze exterior were
designed by German-American architectLudwig Mies van der
Rohe.
■Philip Johnsondesigned the interior ofThe Four Seasonsand
Brasserie restaurants.
■Kahn & Jacobs were associate architects.

4. ■Severud Associateswere the structural engineering
consultants.
■The Seagram building was completed in 1958.
■The building stands 515 feet (157 m) tall with 38 stories.
■It is one of the most notable examples of
thefunctionalistaesthetic and a prominent instance of
corporatemodern architecture.
■The Seagram Building is on theNational Register of Historic
Places, and has been designated as an official city landmark by
theNew York City Landmarks Preservation Commission.

5. Type Office
Architectural style International Style
Location 375Park Avenue
New York
NY10152
United States
Coordinates 40.75846°N 73.97219°W
Completed 1958
Owner Aby Rosen
Height
Roof 516ft (157m)
Technical details
Floor count 38
Floor area 849,014sqft (78,876.0m
2
)
Design and construction
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe;Philip Johnson
Structural engineer Severud Associates

6. STRUCTURE
■The 38-story structure combines a steel moment frame and a
steel and reinforced concrete core for lateral stiffness.
■The concrete core shear walls extend up to the 17th floor, and
diagonal core bracing (shear trusses) extends to the 29th floor.
■According toSeverud Associates, thestructural
engineeringconsultants.

7. ■it was the first tall building to use high strength bolted
connections, the first tall building to combine a braced frame
with a moment frame.
■oneof the first tall buildings to use a vertical truss bracing
system and the first tall building to employ a composite steel
and concrete lateral frame.
■The $41 million construction costs of Seagram made it the
world's most expensive skyscraper at the time, due to the use
of costly, high-quality materials and lavish interior decoration
including bronze,travertine, andmarble.

9. ■Mies' response to the city with the Seagram Building was the
grand gesture of setting back the building 100 feet from the
street edge, which created a highly active open plaza.
■Theplaza attracts users with its two large fountains
surrounded by generous outdoor seating.
■The plaza also created a procession to the entry of the
building, providing the threshold that linked the city with the
skyscraper.

10. Plaza. Lobby.

11. ■This threshold continues into the building as a horizontal
plane in the plaza that cuts into the lobby.
■The lobby also has a white ceiling that stretches out over the
entry doors further eroding the defined line between interior
and exterior

12. Material used
■To give the illusion of structural steel,Rohe used1500
tons of bronze to create bronze-toned I-beams.
■was built of a steel frame, from which non-structural
glass walls were hung.
■It was the use of expensive, high-specmaterialsand
lavishdecorationin theinteriorswhich made
theSeagram Buildingthe world’s most
expensiveskyscraperat the time of itscompletion.

13. ■Windowblinds
■A characteristic of theInternational styleis
thebuilding’suniform appearance. To avoid the
undesirable, disordered irregularity
ofwindowblindsbeingdrawnto different lengths,
Miesspecifiedblindswhich were operationally limited to
three positions –fully open, halfway open, or fully closed.

14. Plan

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