The Seagram Building in New York City is a unique building. The building is is based on the concept of the I-beam. The I-beam detail of the building allows for the building to act in a vertical manner. The I-beams soar upward in a race to the sky both inside and outside the building. When they originally built the building they did not have as many I-beams, so wanting to have the more I-beams than any other building in New York architect, Mies van der Rohe, ordered more I-beams to be made to put on the outside of the building. Mies van der Rohe also ordered for the glass of the building to be stained to that it better blended with the I-beams allowing for the building itself to take on the persona of one giant I-beam. The majority of the I-beams on the building are elevated, off to the ground to give these I-beams the illusion of being weightless. So, whenever you think of the Seagram Building remember, there is no I in Seagram, but there are many I-beams.
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