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Mies van der Rohe
The Robert McCormick House in Elmhurst is one of only three single-family residences designed by Mies van der Rohe in the United States. Built in 1952, it’s celebrating its 60th anniversary this year, but not as a home. In 1994 it was taken apart and reassembled at Wilder Park in Elmhurst as part of the ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on August 31, 2012
With any luck you’ll never participate in a pickup game like the one pictured above at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in downtown Chicago. Harry Weese, the building’s architect, was in his own words, “a man ten years ahead of a time that never comes.” A Chicago Magazine article is a storehouse of great Weese anecdotes, ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on February 2, 2012
All you need do to have a chance to win one of two Lego versions of Mies van der Rohe‘s Farnsworth House is leave a comment on the Architects’ Journal or at its LinkedIn group before June 10. If you happen to be a Lego winner, and if you’ve visited the Farnsworth House, let us ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on May 24, 2011
Not every Mies-head can drop 900 large on a Michael Pado renovation at 860-880 Lake Shore. If you’re dead-set on buying into a Mies building, you can get 1,300 square feet of living space in the architect’s very first high-rise, the Promontory Apartments co-op in Hyde Park, for less than one-fifth of that cost. Unit ...
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Posted by Joseph Askins on October 18, 2010
My first girlfriend when I moved to Chicago was Tal Gilat, an architect from Israel. She was an admirer of Mies. Together we explored his campus of the Illinois Institute of Technology. She showed me his four adjacent apartment buildings on Lake Shore Drive and said they looked as new today as when they were ...
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Posted by Joseph Askins on July 14, 2010
In this segment from their Lake Shore Drive walk, Joe Zekas and Francesca Rose look at the Mies van der Rohe-designed co-ops at 860-880 N Lake Shore Dr and the Esplanade Apartments condominium towers at 900-910 N Lake Shore Dr. Along with the 5,000 square-foot triple-combo unit Francesca mentions in this video, homes currently listed ...
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Posted by Joseph Askins on July 13, 2010
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