Commissioned after 27-year-old Phyllis Lambert persuaded her father, Seagram president Samuel Bronfman, to pass over the firm's first choice of architect and hire Mies instead. Mies set the tower back 100 feet from Park Avenue to open a public plaza, a gesture so widely admired it was written into New York's 1961 zoning code as the incentive for setback plazas citywide. Philip Johnson, credited as associate architect, designed the lobby and the building's Four Seasons and Brasserie restaurants. It stands among the most closely imitated, and most litigated over as a preservation landmark, towers of the twentieth century.
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Year Created Location375 Park Avenue, New York City, United States 1 Architectural StyleInternational Style modernism 1 Structural SystemFireproofed steel frame with applied non-structural bronze I-beam mullions expressing the structural grid; the tower is set back 100 feet from Park Avenue to form a public plaza 1 Primary MaterialBronze-toned extruded bronze and glass curtain wall on a steel frame, travertine-paved plaza 1 Building Type Commissioned BySamuel Bronfman, president of Joseph E. Seagram and Sons; the architect search was led by his daughter Phyllis Lambert 1 Storey Count Current UseCommercial office tower; a New York City designated landmark 1 Visitor AccessPlaza and lobby publicly accessible; office floors private 1 Connections
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Second, coexisting designer credit alongside Mies van der Rohe (entity 99, already recorded); Johnson designed the Four Seasons Restaurant interior.
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Commissioned after 27-year-old Phyllis Lambert persuaded her father, Seagram president Samuel Bronfman, to pass over the firm's first choice of architect and hire Mies instead.
- Created By: Philip Johnson
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The Seagram Building is a skyscraper at 375 Park Avenue, between 52nd and 53rd streets, in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City, New York, United States.
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