860-880 Lake Shore Drive Apartments
Mies van der Rohe
- Outline
- This 26-story steel and glass high-rise apartment building, realized from a plan presented by Mies in the 1920s, consists of two identical 3 x 5-span buildings, each with a 6.4-meter grid of uniform ramen, arranged at 90 degrees to each other. The verticality is emphasized by the main frame and the I-beam mullions affixed to the main frame.
- Location
- USA
- Journal
- Shinkenchiku 2025:08
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- Shop
- Special Link
- Matrix of 100 Years of Architecture(The 100th Anniversary of Shinkenchiku)
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- Skyscrapers
- Category
- Global Evolution of High-Rise Architecture
- Decade
- 1950s
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