We are please to announce that Building Seagram received a PROSE Award for Excellence in Architectural and Urban Planning. We are also pleased to announce that Building Seagram has been named the Designers & Books 2013 Notable Design Book of the Year.

Over here at YUP we are celebrating and we would like you to celebrate with us!  We will be giving away three copies of the exquisite Building Seagram, a comprehensive personal and scholarly history of the iconic American building and its architectural, cultural and urban legacies, to the most creative response to the following question:

The Seagram Building rises over New York’s Park Avenue. With is simple, clean lines and austere beauty, the Seagram Building is an icon of American architecture, transfixing passerby even today.  We would like to know what is your memory of the Seagram Building.

Please send your responses to yaleartbooks@gmail.com by February 19^th. We will announce the three winners on February 20^th. We will share the responses on our blog and we will send the winners a free copy of Building Seagram. In your email, please include your mailing address. (Note: the mailing address will be used only for the purposes of sending you the book and will be deleted afterwards).

Congratulations to the team of folks at YUP who have worked so hard to make Building Seagram a success. We especially congratulate Phyllis Lambert, for crafting such a masterpiece of architectural literature.

While you are on the YUP’s ARTbooks blog, eheck out our past blog post on Building Seagram.