Seagram Building

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The Seagram Building is a landmark modernist skyscraper in New York City, renowned for its minimalist bronze-and-glass design and profound influence on corporate architecture.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf International Style building
landmark
modernist building
office building
skyscraper
architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe NERFINISHED
Philip Johnson
architecturalStyle International Style
Modernism
city New York City
completionDate 1958
continent North America
country United States of America
crossStreet East 52nd Street NERFINISHED
East 53rd Street NERFINISHED
designatedNYCLandmark 1989
developer Seagram Company Ltd.
surface form: Joseph E. Seagram & Sons

Samuel Bronfman
floorCount 38
hasFeature I-beam mullions
bronze-tinted glass
curtain wall façade
setback plaza
uniform window mullions
height 157 m
515 ft
influenced Lever House renovations and later glass towers
One Chase Manhattan Plaza
Toronto-Dominion Centre
postwar corporate skyscraper design
location 375 Park Avenue
Manhattan
New York City
material bronze
glass
reinforced concrete
steel
neighborhood Midtown Manhattan
notableFor expression of structural grid on façade
influential corporate plaza
minimalist bronze-and-glass design
NRHPStatus contributing property to the New York City Skyline NRHP listing
NYCLandmarksDesignationType individual landmark
openingDate 1958
owner RFR Realty
surface form: RFR Holding LLC
startDate 1954
street Park Avenue NERFINISHED
structuralEngineer Kahn and Jacobs
surface form: Kahn & Jacobs
tenant Four Seasons Restaurant (former)

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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe designed Seagram Building
Modern architecture hasNotableWork Seagram Building
AIA Twenty-five Year Award hasRecipient Seagram Building
Lever House influenced Seagram Building
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe notableWork Seagram Building
Maria Ludwig Michael Mies notableWork Seagram Building
Philip Johnson notableWork Seagram Building