Editing Bronze (section)

===Architectural bronze===
{{Main|Seagram Building|Roman Bronze Works}}
{{See also|General Bronze Corporation}}
[[File:Seagram Building (6268045534).jpg|thumb|left|alt=Refer to caption |The [[Seagram Building]] viewed from across [[Park Avenue]] at 52nd Street]]
The [[Seagram Building]] on [[New York City]]'s [[Park Avenue]] is the "iconic glass box sheathed in bronze, designed by [[Ludwig Mies van der Rohe|Mies van der Rohe]]."<ref name="NYC Skyscrapers-Seagrams">{{cite book |last1=Nash |first1=Eric |title=Manhattan Skyscrapers |date=1999 |publisher=Princeton Architectural Press |location=Princeton, New Jersey |isbn=1-56898-181-3 |pages=105–106 |edition=1st |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l3aAA2Di1YkC&q=seagrams |access-date=16 December 2023}}</ref> The Seagram Building was the first time that an entire building was sheathed in bronze.<ref name="NYTimes Seagrams">{{cite news |last1=Ennis |first1=Thomas |title=Building is Designer's Testament |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1957/11/10/90853549.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0 |access-date=17 December 2023 |issue=November 10, 1957 |work=The New York Times |pages=313, 320 |quote=Seagram Building Marks Apex Of Mies van der Rohe's Career}}</ref> The [[General Bronze Corporation]] fabricated 3,200,000 pounds (1,600 tons) of bronze at its plant in [[Garden City, New York]].<ref name="NYTimes Seagrams" /> The Seagram Building is a 38-story, 516-foot bronze-and-[[topaz]]-tinted glass building.<ref name="NYC Skyscrapers-Seagrams" /> The building looks like a "squarish 38-story tower clad in a restrained curtain wall of metal and glass."<ref>{{cite journal |title=SEAGRAM'S PLANS PLAZA TOWER IN NEW YORK and Mies van der Rohe designs his first skyscraper office building |journal=Architectural Forum |date=April 1955 |volume=102 |issue=4 |pages=9 |url=https://usmodernist.org/AF/AF-1955-04.pdf |access-date=21 December 2023 |language=English}}</ref> "Bronze was selected because of its color, both before and after aging, its [[corrosion]] resistance, and its [[extrusion]] properties.<ref name="NYTimes Seagrams" /><ref name="NYC Skyscrapers-Seagrams" /> In 1958, it was not only the most expensive building of its time — $36 million — but it was the first building in the world with floor-to-ceiling glass walls.<ref name="NYC Skyscrapers-Seagrams" /> Mies van der Rohe achieved the crisp edges that were custom-made with specific detailing by General Bronze<ref name="NYTimes Seagrams" /> and "even the screws that hold in the fixed glass-plate windows were made of brass."<ref name="NYC Skyscrapers-Seagrams" />