Seagram Building
A bronze-and-glass tower set back behind a plaza: the template for the corporate skyscraper
- Author
- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Philip Johnson
- Style
- Modern architecture (International Style) — A house as a machine for living: no ornament, function first, concrete, glass and the free plan
- Century
- 20th century
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