The Seagram building - Park Avenue, Midtown Manhattan New York City. Designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe - 38 stories tall and completed in 1958. A truly beautiful example of a modern skyscraper not only for its time but very much today. The uniformity and symmetry of the building is classical and understated achieved largely through the use of only two building materials visible to the observer, tinted glass and bronze. Mies van der Rohe initially wanted the steel frame visible to all however building codes at the time prohibited such construction siting the steel could fail during a fire if not covered with suitable fire retardant material. The extensive use of bronze in such a way to capture what lay beneath was the alternative.

I saw this building for the first time on a recent trip to New York - pure magic!