Seagram Building: The Seagram Building's design has been heralded for its dramatic use of a large plaza which sets the building back nearly 90 feet from the sidewalk.
As a result, the Seagram only uses part of its site.
The building, at 375 Park Avenue, is not built to the maximum height allowable by zoning laws.
RFR is a high-profile real estate firm headed by Aby Rosen and Michael Fuchs.
The company owns the Seagram Building and the Lever House, among other properties in the city.
The New York Post reported in January 2005 that Rosen and Fuchs paid $31.5 million for the YWCA property.
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Fifty-two percent of its units have been sold.
On The Other Hand See Seagram Building May:Mies van der Rohe's Seagram Building may be getting a new neighbor, in the form of a slender, nearly 700-foot-tall highrise building from Lord Norman Foster.
The ceremony and public program in the Museum's Great Hall featured an illustrated lecture by Ms. Lambert, Ironies in the Public Life of Architecture: The Seagram Building, 1954-58, focusing on the public reception and long-term impact of the Seagram Building on architectural culture.
Her talk was preceded by opening remarks from Chase Rynd, executive director of the Museum, tributes from the Honorable Frank McKenna, ambassador of Canada to the United States of America; Pierre Théberge, director of the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa; and Elizabeth Diller, founding principal of Diller, Scofidio + Renfro, and a presentation of the Prize by David Schwarz, chair of the Scully Prize Jury.
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