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The Aquitania is a luxury, 82-unit cooperative apartment building in the Margate Park neighborhood of the Uptown community of Chicago, Illinois.It is officially designated on the National Register of Historic Places by The United States Department of the Interior.
Robert Taylor Homes was a public housing project in the Bronzeville neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois from 1962 to 2007. The largest housing project in the United States, it consisted of 28 virtually identical high-rises, set out in a linear plan for two miles (3 km), with the high-rises regularly configured in a horseshoe shape of three in each block.
The housing project was modeled after the Dunbar Apartments in Harlem, New York City, built by John D. Rockefeller Jr. in 1926. [4] In 1981, the Rosenwald Apartment Building received National Register of Historic Places designation. [3] The last residents moved out in 2000, after mismanagement and lack of upkeep made the site uninhabitable.
The Brewster Apartments (originally known as Lincoln Park Palace) is a residential building in the Lake View neighborhood of Chicago.. Located at Diversey and Pine Grove (originally Park), it was designed by architect Enock Hill Turnock for Norwegian-native Bjoerne Edwards, publisher of American Contractor, with construction started in 1893 and completed in 1896.
The apartments as seen from Lake Shore Drive 860–880 Lake Shore Drive 880 Lake Shore Drive 880 Lake Shore Drive taken from 860 Lake Shore Drive. The buildings were finished in 1951 and were featured in a 1957 article in Life Magazine on Mies. [9] In 1996 they became the first buildings designed by Mies van der Rohe to receive Chicago Landmark ...
Today, the urbanization and city planning of Chicago still includes echoes of the previously established tenement houses, as the city includes divisions along racial, ethnic, and income-based lines. [4] In this sense, Chicago continues to struggle with discrepancies in wealth and historical racial migration in regard to housing.
Atwater Apartments is an apartment skyscraper adjacent to the Streeterville neighborhood in Chicago, Illinois, in the United States. [1] [2] It was previously called Streeter Place. [3] The building was completed in 2009. It contains 54 stories, 480 units, and many amenities. [4]
Axis Apartments is a sixty-story high rise apartment tower in downtown Chicago, Illinois, United States. Designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill , it was completed in 1986 as Onterie Center . The name was a conflation of "Ontario" and "Erie", the streets at its two entrances.