Mies Van der Rohe - Lake Shore Drive Apartments Illinois, 1948-51 - Printable Version

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Mies Van der Rohe - Lake Shore Drive Apartments Illinois, 1948-51 - anjali - 08-27-2014

Lake Shore Drive Apartments Illinois, 1948-51

Finally design would merge with construction. His first project being the Lakeshore Apartment Buildings in Chicago.

The scheme consists of two identical 26-story towers placed 46 feet apart with their long axes set perpendicular to each other. While each building alone is symmetrical, comprised of 21’ square bays (5 across, 3 deep) with a total of 288 apartments.

Once again he created with form and function . The first floor of the building rested on plithes giving the building integration with the outdoors.

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