The General Motors Technical Center, completed in 1954 outside of Detroit, was a 17-building complex of Miesian precision that flouted that modernist master's formal, neutral aesthetic with brilliant color and the use of neoprene gaskets to seal the windows, a technology borrowed from car windshields.

WSJ: Eero Saarinen, Shaping the Future, at the Museum of the City of New York | By Ada Louise Huxtable