Detail View: Archivision Base to Module 9: Lake Shore and Esplanade Apartments
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Preferred Title:
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Lake Shore and Esplanade Apartments
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Alternate Title:
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860-880 Lake Shore Drive Apartments [complex]
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Image View:
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Frontal view of the entry canopy
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Creator:
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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (German architect, 1886-1969); Pace Associates (American architectural firm, active 1946-1957)
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Location:
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site: Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Location Note:
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860-880 Lake Shore Drive; 900-910 Lake Shore Drive
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Date:
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1948-1951 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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American
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Style Period:
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International Style (modern European architecture style); Modernist; Modern
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Work Type 1:
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apartment house
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Work Type 2:
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skyscraper
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Classification:
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architecture
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Material:
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concrete; steel; glass
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Technique:
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construction (assembling)
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Measurements:
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254 ft (height)
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Subjects:
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architectural exteriors; canopy
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Description:
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A twin pair of glass-and-steel apartment towers on N. Lake Shore Drive along Lake Michigan in the Streeterville neighborhood of Chicago. They were added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 28, 1980. The 26 floor, 254 ft (82 m) tall towers were dubbed the "Glass House" apartments. Construction was by the renowned Chicago real estate developer Herbert Greenwald. The design principles first expressed in 860-880 Lake Shore Drive were copied extensively, and are now considered characteristic of the modern International Style. They were finished in 1951 and were featured in a 1957 article in Life Magazine on Mies. In 1956 the complex was extended with another pair of towers at 900-910 Lake Shore Drive called Esplanade Apartments, also designed by Mies. In 1996 they became the first buildings designed by Mies van der Rohe to receive Chicago Landmark Status. (Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page)
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Collection:
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Archivision Base Collection
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Identifier:
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1A1-MVR-LS-A4
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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