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The Seagram Building is a 38-story skyscraper at 375 Park Avenue, between 52nd and 53rd Streets, in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City Until 2001, the headquarters of the Seagram Company, a Canadian distiller, it was designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Philip Johnson, Ely Jacques Kahn, and Robert Allan Jacobs in the International Style, and competed in 1958. Measuring 515 feet (157 m) tall, it has a glass curtain wall exterior with vertical mullions of bronze and horizontal spandrels made of Muntz metal. A pink granite plaza faces Park Avenue, containing two fountains; its construction helped influence the 1961 Zoning Resolution, a zoning ordinance that allowed developers to construct additional floor area in exchange for including plazas outside their buildings. Since 2000, Aby Rosen's RFR Holding LLC has owned the Seagram Building. Elements of it were designated as official city landmarks in 1989; the building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2006. (Full article...)