Seagram Building by Mies van der Rohe travel tips and stories. Vacations ideas, cruises, spa and resorts

Imitated but not equated, the Seagram Building is mainly acknowledged as the greates example of skyscrapers in the International Style in architecture.The significat success of the building derives from its perfect proportions, and the relation with the surroundings: the building is situated back from the street by ninety feet, and in from the side by thirty. The forecourt so created uses reflecting pools and a low boundary wall in green marble to set off the building, borrowing heavily from Mies’ earlier Pavilion in Barcelona (1929).