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This building, like many of his Chicago high-rise structures, caused controversy in the pure minimalist community due to its mullions. [citation needed] Mies is hailed as the father of "less is more"; however, 860–880 Lake Shore Drive is covered in non-functional I-beam mullions. Mies explains how the mullions do not violate his less is more ...
The Haines Shoe House is a shoe-shaped house in Hellam Township, Pennsylvania, about two miles west of the borough of Hallam, on Shoe House Road near the Lincoln Highway. The house is 25 feet (7.6 m) high, 17 feet (5.2 m) wide, and 48 feet (15 m) long, and is visible from U.S. Route 30 (US 30).
Dearborn was the first Chicago housing project built after World War II, as housing for blacks on part of the Federal Street slum within the "black belt". [3] It was the start of the Chicago Housing Authority's post-war use of high-rise buildings to accommodate more units at a lower overall cost, [6] and when it opened in 1950, the first to have elevators.
In 1997 Chicago unveiled Near North Redevelopment Initiative, a master plan for development in the area. It recommends demolishing Green Homes and most of Cabrini Extension. [ 7 ] In 1999 Chicago Housing Authority announced Plan for Transformation, [ 7 ] a plan to spend $1.5 billion over ten years to demolish 18,000 apartments and build and/or ...
Henry Horner Homes was a Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) public housing project located in the Near West Side community area on the West Side of Chicago, Illinois, United States. The original section of Henry Horner Homes was bordered by Oakley Boulevard to the west, Washington Boulevard to the south, Hermitage Avenue to the east, and Lake ...
Parkway Gardens Apartment Homes, built from 1950 to 1955, was the last of Henry K. Holsman's many housing development designs in Chicago. Holsman began designing low-income housing in Chicago in the 1910s when an urban housing shortage developed after World War I.
The home was built in 2003 on a small, irregularly shaped lot at 970 Chestnut Street [a] in the Chicago suburb of Deerfield.The house is trapezoidal in shape, rather than the traditional rectangular shape, [3] which has inspired its nickname, the "pie house", due to its apparent resemblance to a slice of pie. [4]
Penn Lyon Homes was a construction firm specializing in modular home design, systems-built homes, and commercial modular buildings with its products being distributed through independent builders, developers, and dealers. The company was founded in 1981, and operated out of Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania.