Mies van der Rohe, Seagram Building 

The narrators seem breathlessly excited in their description of the Seagram Building.

My fav building in my 16 years in NYC. He set it back because it was his jewel, it would be lost with the rest of them at the street’s edge, so he made his own gallery space. 1,500 tons of bronze, you kidding me??!! The Seagram heiress gave him an unlimited budget. What a creative cocktail - money no object, an heiress studying architecture at Harvard, a walk to MoMA, they’re going to run with the last Director of the Bauhaus - it’s all very Ayn Rand. His buildings cooler than sunglasses in The Matrix but this one with the bronze brings you back to ancient evenings.

I used to work in this building for Seagram's Overseas Sales Company (SOSCO). So many memories of a great company to work for and a shame about what happened to it.

Excellent. A new perspective for me. I've always found the International Style to be antiseptic, but your video has made me look at this building in a new light. Thanks for posting.

Very nice presentation, in such class and true knowledge!! Very entertaining, thank you . Louis Sullivan.

Great video. Thank you.

I like the international style.

I think they should allow it to turn green.

thank you, im witting my term paper about Mies van der Rohe, helped me a lot:)

I like the dark moody colors.

This and Saarinen’s CBS building are real landmarks of 1950-60’s.

Not so fast. I live in Baltimore's Highfield House, designed by Mies van der Rohe in the early 60s as an apartment building, now a condo. When it was a rental, the lack of income from the open area under the building forced conversion into a condominium. His window design looks great, but the daily noise from the expansion and contraction of window metal frames, lasting over several hours each day is disruptive. Van der Rohe seems not to have understood drainage. The vast plaza under the building looks like a Venetian lagoon during heavy rains due to minuscule drains. The building is currently replacing the entire concrete plaza and its membrane protecting rooms and the garage below. Thankfully this was begun before the catastrophic collapse of the condo building in Florida.

I drive by Westmount square in montreal and think of Mies. Immortal.

THEY FORGOT TO MENTION PHILLIP JOHNSON< WHO CO-DESIGNED THE SEAGRAM BUILDING. JOHNSON DESIGNED THE INTERIOR OF THE FOUR SEASONS RESTURANT, WHICH RECENTLY CLOSED ITS DOORS. PLEASE MAKE A NOTE OF IT. PHILLIP JOHNSON WAS LEFT OUT OF THE TALK

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