The Seagram Building at 375 Park Avenue was designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, with Philip Johnson as co-architect. The Seagram Company, a Canadian distiller, commissioned it, and Phyllis Lambert, daughter of its head Samuel Bronfman, shaped the design. The infobox says completed in 1958, and the text says construction ran from 1955 to 1958.
The International Style tower has 38 stories and rises 516 feet (157 m), clad in a glass curtain wall with bronze mullions, Muntz metal spandrels, travertine and marble. About 1,600 short tons of bronze were used. It is set back 90 feet (27 m) from Park Avenue, behind a plaza with two pools.
It was the first New York skyscraper with full-height plate glass and the first office building with an extruded bronze facade. It became a city landmark in 1989 and joined the National Register of Historic Places in 2006. The article gives no plaza hours.
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