The Midtown East tour was an exciting tour of being able to able experience a wide range of significant style of buildings in such a small condensed area.  We saw beautiful  Art Deco buildings, Moorish Revival, and glass curtain systems among many other styles.  One highlight in particular of the trip was the New York Public Library.  The design is Beaux Art and it features white marble façade. The front of the Library is has wide steps that are designed that embrace the crowd of tourist and visitors without making the crowd feeling uncomfortable.  History feels to be represented everywhere you see in this building. One interesting fact about the library is that is has more than  84 miles of stacks and its able to store 3.2 million books and it’s all built under Bryant Park.

Another captivating building on the tour was the Seagram Building, Ludwig Mies der Rohe. His belief of “less is more” is apparent in the Seagram Building. The Seagram’s building highlights parts of the building that before the date it was built were camouflaged instead of celebrated.  It has a bronze exterior façade that features a non-structural bronze I-beams – visually suggesting the building’s structure however it is completely nonfunctional.