seagram guilding

1. SEAGRAM
BUILDING
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

3. ABOUT BUILDING
■ The Seagram Building is a skyscraper at 375 Park Avenue,
between East 52nd and 53rd Streets, in Midtown
Manhattan, New York City. The integral plaza, building, stone
faced lobby and distinctive glass and bronze exterior were
designed by German-American architect Ludwig Mies van der
Rohe.
■ Philip Johnson designed the interior of The Four Seasons and
Brasserie restaurants.
■ Kahn & Jacobs were associate architects.

4. ■ Severud Associates were 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
the functionalist aesthetic and a prominent instance of
corporate modern architecture.
■ The Seagram Building is on the National Register of Historic
Places, and has been designated as an official city landmark by
the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission.

5. Type Office
Architectural style International Style
Location 375 Park Avenue
New York
NY 10152
United States
Coordinates 40.75846°N 73.97219°W
Completed 1958
Owner Aby Rosen
Height
Roof 516 ft (157 m)
Technical details
Floor count 38
Floor area 849,014 sq ft (78,876.0 m
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 to Severud Associates, the structural
engineering consultants.

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.
■ one of 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, and marble.

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.
■ The plaza 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 used 1500
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-spec materials and
lavish decoration in the interiors which made
the Seagram Building the world’s most
expensive skyscraper at the time of its completion.

13. ■ Window blinds
■ A characteristic of the International style is
the building’s uniform appearance. To avoid the
undesirable, disordered irregularity
of window blinds being drawn to different lengths,
Mies specified blinds which were operationally limited to
three positions – fully open, halfway open, or fully closed.

14. Plan

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