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...more baroque outlet. From now on, if money, showmanship, and just plain spectacle count for anything. The Four Seasons will be synonymous with the world's costliest restaurant ($4.5 million to build), which swung open its Park Avenue doors this week on the ground floor of the bronzed Seagram Building...
...Much Glass. As building after building in the exhibition shows, the major debt of the U.S.'s younger architects is owed to Chicago's German-born Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. His bronze-sheathed Seagram Building, shown glowing against Manhattan's skyline, is a masterful exposition of how the steel cage can, by the very economy of its means and richness of its texture, become a masterpiece. But in the most advanced projects, it is equally clear that few architects now consider themselves blind Mies followers...
...works by Walter Gropius, Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier, he belabored these men as "glassic architects" and worse. He dramatically ranged himself against the sweeping tide of .the International Style. Manhattan's United Nations Secretariat was a "tombstone," Lever House "a waste of space," the Seagram Building "a whisky bottle on a card table." The steel-cage frame was "19th century carpenter architecture already suffering from arthritis of the joints." Boxy modern houses he called "coffins for living...
...votes to place a fourth building, Manhattan's still unfinished Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, in 18th place. Adler & Sullivan added St. Louis' 1890 Wainwright Building (eighth) and Chicago's 1889 Auditorium (13th). Ludwig Mies van der Rohe won tenth place with Manhattan's House of Seagram (TIME, March 3) and 24th with his Lake Shore Drive apartments in Chicago. Famed 19th century Architect Henry Hobson Richardson also rated two buildings: Boston's 1877 Trinity Church (14th) and Chicago's since-destroyed Marshall Field store (17th). The University of Virginia (eleventh) and Monticello (twelfth) scored...
...fight for tax relief was Schenley Industries, which favored granting tax relief to existing and future whisky stocks. Among Schenley's arguments: only in this way can U.S. distillers compete with the British and Canadians, whose governments have no force-out tax provision. Against Schenley stood Joseph E. Seagram & Sons. Seagram argued that Schenley held 60% to 70% of all the old whisky in the U.S., hence would reap the major benefit. Seagram backed a different proposal of the Distilled Spirits Institute: grant tax relief, but prohibit distillers from labeling their whiskies as over eight years old until...