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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 ...
The developer of the buildings, Herbert Greenwald, worked with Mies for roughly a decade on several residential highrise projects that preceded and followed 900-910 including Mies' first skyscraper, the Promontory Apartments, located south in Hyde Park, and the sister buildings to the southeast, 860-880 Lake Shore Drive Apartments. Like 860-880 ...
860–880 Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, Illinois (1949–1951) The 860–880 Lake Shore Drive Apartments were built between 1948 and 1951 and came to define postwar US Modernism. These towers, with façades of steel and glass, were radical departures from the typical residential brick apartment buildings.
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 ...
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)
Lake Point Tower from St. Regis Chicago between Navy Pier and Lake Shore Drive, 2022. The architects for Lake Point Tower were John Heinrich and George Schipporeit, working under the firm name of Schipporeit and Heinrich; the two were students of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, one of the best known architects of the Bauhaus movement and International Style school, who taught at the Illinois ...
Lafayette Pavilion Apartments; Lafayette Towers Apartments East; Lafayette Towers Apartments West; 860–880 Lake Shore Drive Apartments; Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe and Felix Candela's Industrial Buildings
860-880 Lake Shore Drive Apartments are completed in Chicago, by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Healy Guest House, Siesta Key, Florida, designed by Paul Rudolph and Ralph Twitchell is completed. The JK Building completed in Belo Horizonte, Brazil as designed by Oscar Niemeyer. Farnsworth House (Plano, Illinois) is completed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.