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EXTENSION OF THE SIDEWALK The Seagrams building is located on lexington avenue and east fifty-second street in Manhattan, NY .  The project was completed in 1958 by the world famous architect Mies Van Der Rohe and architect Phillip Johnson. Mies Van Der Rohe was a famous architect in Europe that practice and taught modernism. He fled because of the Nazies and went to America in the late 1930’s. The building is an icon of the modernist movement and led to a change in the government's view on how buildings interact with the street.  The skyscraper was made out of painted bronze and dark tinted glass. The bronze is oiled and must be re oiled every two years to maintain its black color. The bronze exterior is not structural but rather a decoration to give the idea of exposed material. HE wanted to expose the structure, however the building code did not allow it so he put black I beams vertically along the facade to give the impression of exposed structure. The structure ...

Sainte-Genevieve Pantheon History The Saint Genevieve Pantheon was built by Jacques-Germain Soufflort in about 1757 on the Latin Quarter of Paris France. It was meant to replace an existing older church [2]. After the French revolution it was secularized and dedicated to inspiring Frenchman, hence the name pantheon, “a building in which the illustrious dead of a nation are buried or honored.”[1] The purpose of the Pantheon has changed of the past few centuries since its construction:   Today, the structure that we see now is a third reiteration of the pantheon, having been rebuilt over the centuries. Architecture: Outside: The Pantheon is a cruciform shaped building having a high dome in the middle and four smaller domes in its arms. The facade is much like the Roman Pantheon and is formed by a portico of Corinthian columns and triangular pediments attached to the ends of its eastern arms. Instead of joining directly to the rotunda the pedimen...