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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 ...
He followed Gropius's recommendation to hire Mies van der Rohe. [8] [9] Greenwald utilized Mies on several projects including: The Promontory, 5530 S. South Shore Drive, Chicago, IL (1949) Algonquin Apartments, 1606 E Hyde Park Blvd, Chicago, IL (1949-1951) [10] [11] 860-880 Lake Shore Drive Apartments, Chicago, IL (1949-1951)
900-910 N Lake Shore Drive. 900 910 North Lake Shore are a pair of glass and steel buildings, perpendicular to one another, designed by architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, on Lake Shore Drive in the Streeterville neighborhood of Chicago. Completed in 1956, they marked the refinement of Mies' highrise building design concept.
900–910 North Lake Shore; B. ... 860–880 Lake Shore Drive Apartments; Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe and Felix Candela's Industrial Buildings; M. ... Weissenhof Estate;
On the other two sides, east and west, he recommended floor-to-ceiling windows between I-beam mullions running the height of the building. Greenwald rejected this design, although he would later approve a similar design for his 860–880 Lake Shore Drive Apartments. Mies also submitted a second design with an exposed concrete structure on all ...
One of the 20th century's most influential architects, Mies van der Rohe, collaborated with the legendary developer Herbert Greenwald to these towers in Newark among other projects, such as the 860–880 Lake Shore Drive Apartments in Chicago, the Seagram Building in New York City, and Lafayette Park, Detroit. Upon Greenwald's death in a 1959 ...
During 1951–1952, Mies designed the steel, glass, and brick McCormick House, located in Elmhurst, Illinois (18 miles west of the Chicago Loop), for real-estate developer Robert Hall McCormick, Jr. A one-story adaptation of the exterior curtain wall of his famous 860–880 Lake Shore Drive towers, it served as a prototype for an unbuilt series ...
The Edith Farnsworth House, formerly the Farnsworth House, [6] is a historical house designed and constructed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe between 1945 and 1951. The house was constructed as a one-room weekend retreat in a rural setting in Plano, Illinois, about 60 miles (96 km) southwest of Chicago's downtown.