LOBBY NYC / SEAGRAM BUILDING (1958)

The Seagram building is located on 375 Park Avenue, New York City. The Seagram building clearly stands out. Huge white and gray office buildings surround the Seagram building, making it stand out with its warmer darker colors. Seagram has an outside dark brown metal structure, holding the matching brown windows creating a curtain wall. The outside structure gives resemblances to Industrial building. The building is standing on pillars, lifting the building from the ground and giving air and light to the bottom. This makes the building seem almost light even though it is 157 meters tall. 

Seagram is place in the middle of block and having a huge space in front of it with sculptures and a fountain. This makes the building seem less intimidating. Next to Seagram is a much smaller building giving it air on both sides, unlike the other skyscrapers surrounding Seagram.

The pillars holding the building are of the same dark metal as the rest of the building, just thicker. The whole bottom is covered with a clear glass without color, and in the middle of the entrance is a swing door. The swing door and the windowpanes are covered with gold. When entering the lobby, the glass facade makes the room very light and open and difficult to tell whether you are inside or outside. The plain floors and walls covered in beige colored marble. The lobby has high ceilings, which is emphasized by a narrow passage leading down to elevators. Unfortunately, a metal desk is place in front of the passage with a guard only leading people who have business in the building through. The building in minimalistic, and yet very interesting.