Seagram Building, (New York, US); 1958; International Style
The Seagram building is located in 375 Park Avenue, which is between 52 nd and 53 rd in Midtown Manhattan.A huge grid bronze skyscraper with a shining glass curtains stand next to a spacious fountain. This 157-meter-high, 38-story glass-walled office building has now been surrounded and covered by some sophisticated and new glass skyscrapers to stop its fame. In fact, it is a monumental design in architecture to open era of skyscraper. The main materials of decorations for skyscrapers were marble and granite before the Seagram Building completed in 1958. Their structures and technique were almost same as the Seagram Building, and the architects were look forward in culture and aesthetics of traditional European style. The Seagram Building has built a new format of skyscraper. T he German -American architect Mies van der Rohe convinced the Seagram family to have a wealth budget to prepare the building’s material. His famous archite...