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Saturday, April 30, 2011

Seagram Building

This is another one of those Midtown landmarks...

To quote Wikipedia again:

The Seagram Building is a skyscraper, located at 375 Park Avenue, between 52nd Street and 53rd Street in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. It was designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, in collaboration with Philip Johnson. Severud Associates were the structural engineering consultants. The building stands 516 feet tall with 38 stories, and was completed in 1958. It stands as one of the finest examples[citation needed] of the functionalist aesthetic and a masterpiece of corporate modernism. It was designed as the headquarters for the Canadian distillers Joseph E. Seagram's & Sons with the active interest of Phyllis Lambert, the daughter of Samuel Bronfman, Seagram's CEO.

When the Seagram Building was built, it stood out as a "modern" building. However, older buildings around it were demolished and newer buildings in a similar style were built all around it, so it just blends in now.

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