Brasserie Restaurant
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„While the Seagram Building is the premiere 20th century glass tower, the restaurant, lodged in the stone base of the building, is entirely without glass or view. This irony prompted a series of contemplation’s about glass and vision.
The design emphasizes the social aspects of dining. Entrance from the street is transformed into the ritual of "making an entrance." Initially, a sensor in the revolving entry door triggers a video snapshot that is added to a continuously changing display over the bar, announcing every new patron. Along the "video beam" composed of 15 side by side LCD monitors, the most recent portrait takes the first position and racks the previous 15 to the right, dropping away the oldest. Beyond, in a recall of the original Brasserie, the descent into the main dining room (several feet below street level), is theatricized: a stair in glass of unusually gradual proportions prolongs the descent of each new patron and puts him or her on display as they enter the space.“
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