The most ambitious of these was a site-specific performance at the Seagram Building on Park Avenue, New York City.
Originally intended to be the site of an office tower designed by Mies van der Rohe in the manner of the Seagram Building in New York City, that scheme was aborted following one of the great architectural and planning show-downs of the 1970s.
The Seagram Building's plaza was also the site of a landmark planning study by William H. Whyte, the American sociologist.
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Here, they juxtapose two of Mies’s icons – the Farnsworth House, which stretches into landscape, and the Manhattan skyscraper, the Seagram Building.
Not abandoning the modernist principles they learned at IIT, they added new ideas to the stagnating concept of the modern office building, which had been unchanged from the completion of the Seagram Building and Lever House.
Four Darks in Red shows Mark Rothko's often used axis of black, brown and red, which is in a number of his easel paintings and in the mural projects for the Seagram Building and the Rothko Chapel in Houston, Texas.