The Story of a Building, 1958 [Seagram Building in New York City]
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- Опубліковано 13 бер 2018
- The Story of a Building tells the story of the construction of the iconic Seagram Building on Park Avenue in New York City. The 14-minute film from 1958 provides a detailed look at the design and construction of a building hailed by publisher Henry Luce as a "20th century revolution in architecture."
The beautifully shot and composed film was sponsored by the Copper and Brass Research Association but the producer of the film is unknown. Very little information could be found about the intent or potential audience for it's creation. Even though we have limited context for its making, it stands as an important document about the rise of trendsetting addition to New York City's skyline.
It's innovative design and construction methods became a template for later projects in New York and beyond.
The Hagley Library houses extensive records related to Seagram's and the Bronfman family. For more information, please contact us at research@hagley.org
SOURCE: digital.hagley.org/FILM_200020...
This actually was the best Video on the actual making of a Building I saw wish it was longer.
This was the first tall building to use high-strength bolted connections and the first tall building to combine a braced frame with a moment frame, the first one to employ a composite steel and concrete lateral frame. and one of the first to use a vertical truss bracing system.
WHAT A PIECE OF WORK!!! 🤯
Mark Rothko was commissioned to create large paintings that were to be installed in the Four Seasons restaurant, housed in this building. He backed out, returned the money, and the paintings are now at the Tate in London.
Whenever I drink ginger ale, I think of this building
The Toronto-Dominion Centre in Toronto is the site of five towers of various heights and footprints which are otherwise nearly identical to the Seagram Building. The tallest, at 56 stories and 731 feet, houses the headquarters of the Toronto Dominion Bank. Two were built before Mies' death in 1969.
The Centre is the fullest realization of the vision Mies had for the Seagram Building.
Outstanding piece of architecture's history. Thanks
There are two more of these towers in Toronto, Ontario Canada and is home to the Toronto Dominion Bank.
"It takes big men, big machines to make big dreams come true." (1:10) I'm curious if it's known whether any women contributed to the construction of the Seagram building. Another video I just watched described the curtain wall facade of the UN Secretariat Building, completed a few years earlier than this (1952). The curatorial assistant of the department of architecture and design at MoMA says the bays of the facade were fabricated by women. I wonder if the Seagram building may have also been produced, in part, by female fabricators?
Actually, Phyllis Lambert, member of the Seagram Company's founding family,, selected Mies van Der Rohe as architect.
Early concepts for the building, including one that looked like a gift-wrapped whiskey bottle (Seagram a spirits company), were an embarrassment.
I have to be honest, I like the design but the building has one thing that I abhor to death, it triggered international style architecture which is super ugly, and all the international style buildings replaced beautiful ones, so I wish this concept of a building had never existed, other than that, I do like the design of THIS ONE, but the others are complete eye sores
I so much agree to this statement. One of the only good parts of the international style is the idea of having windows from the floor to the roof, one next to the other. That is very helpful for comercial spaces where you sell furniture or other big products, but for office use meah. I wish it should've been used only occasionally and not everywhere. Too bad art deco died in those years and art nouveau wasn't used that much in skyscrapers.
it has all the appeal of a pair of bolt cutters.... yawn...