COLLECTION NAME:
Archivision Base to Module 9
Record
Preferred Title:
Promontory Apartments
Image View:
View along the base of the east elevation
Creator:
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (German architect, 1886-1969); Pace Associates (American architectural firm, active 1946-1957)
Location:
site: Chicago, Illinois, United States
Location Note:
5530 South Shore Drive
Date:
1946-1949 (creation)
Cultural Context:
American
Style Period:
International Style (modern European architecture style); Modernist; Modern
Work Type 1:
apartment house
Work Type 2:
skyscraper
Classification:
architecture
Material:
concrete; glass; brick
Technique:
construction (assembling)
Subjects:
architectural exteriors
Description:
His first high-rise buildings resulted from a meeting in the mid-1940s with Herbert S. Greenwald, an active young developer with particular interests in the field of urban renewal. Promontory Apartments (1946-1949; with Pace Associates and Holsman, Holsman, Klekamp and Taylor), 5530 South Shore Drive, Chicago, was the first of many buildings to result from an association that continued for more than a decade until Greenwald's untimely death in an air crash. Refinement of the high-rise building type moved from the reinforced concrete structural frame with brick and glass infill at Promontory Apartments, to the fireproofed steel structural frame enclosed by a skin of black-painted steel mullions, column and floor fascia plates with clear glass at the 26-storey 860 Lake Shore Drive Apartments. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.groveart.com/)
Collection:
Archivision Base Collection
Identifier:
1A1-MVR-PA-A7
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
Promontory Apartments
