Seagram building

Seagram building is a skyscraper of offices in New York.

AUTHOR:
The architects of this building are Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Philip Johnson.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: Born in Germany in 1886, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe broke new ground with his architectural designs. He started out as a draftsman before striking out later on is own. During World War I, Mies served in the German military. He then became a well-known architect in Gemany, creating such structures as the German Pavilion for the 1929 Barcelona Exposition. In the late 1930s, Mies emigrated to the United States. There he created such well-known Modernist works as the Lake Shore Drive Apartments and the Seagram Building. He died in 1969.
Philip Johnson: Philip Johnson was an architect and theorist who esigned his own home,the Glass House, New Canaan, ct, on principles of space unification derived from Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, with whom he designed the Seagram Building skyscraper, New York City (1945). Further works include the Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, TX (1961) and the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center (1964). He was the inaugural winner of the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1979.

PERIOD:
Seagram building is 157 metres tall and it has 37 floors. It was started in 1954 and it was completed in 1958.

STYLE: 
The Seagram building has an international style and íts architecture is modern.

LOCATION:
 It is located at 375 Park Avenue, between 52nd Street and 53rd Street in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. 

MATERIALS:
The Seagram building was built of a steel frame, from which non-structural glass walls were hung. Mies would have preferred the steel frame to be visible to all; howeever, American building codes required that allstructural steel  be coveed in a fireproof material, usually concrete, because improperly protected steel columns or beams may soften and fail in confined fires. Other materials they used for this building were marble for the plaza benches, travertine for the lobby walls and floor, tinted glass and bronze for thr curtain wall.

SHAPE RELATED: 
The skyscraper is prism-shaped.I think it is a huge and an elegant building.