07-22-2014, 11:25 AM
SEAGRAM BUILDING,
375 Park Ave, New York, NY, United States 1958
This 39-story, 516-foot tall office building was commissioned by Joseph E. Seagram & Sons Corporation, purveyors of Seagram liquors.
The floor of the Seagram's, as in the Lake Shore Drive, a rectangle of 5x3 squares structural modules. But the elevation of the building achieves its expressive perfection, simulating a column with its three constituent parts classic.
His typology shows clearly the structure in front, meeting both an ornamental role, consisting of steel beams and columns of bronze, that without a structural role fits perfectly the large windows that are the most visible epidermis of the work.
375 Park Ave, New York, NY, United States 1958
This 39-story, 516-foot tall office building was commissioned by Joseph E. Seagram & Sons Corporation, purveyors of Seagram liquors.
The floor of the Seagram's, as in the Lake Shore Drive, a rectangle of 5x3 squares structural modules. But the elevation of the building achieves its expressive perfection, simulating a column with its three constituent parts classic.
His typology shows clearly the structure in front, meeting both an ornamental role, consisting of steel beams and columns of bronze, that without a structural role fits perfectly the large windows that are the most visible epidermis of the work.