Best of the Best: Chicago Federal Center
Chicago Federal Center Perhaps Mies van der Rohe’s finest work in Chicago, Federal Center is a study in simple perfection, captured in the Miesian dictate “less is more.” The formal, deceptively simple...
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Mies van der Rohe’s Lake Shore Drive apartments Louis Sullivan’s cast-iron filigree adorning Carson’s was at the top of the list until it was boarded up again once Carson’s vacated. Mies, though, never...
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Mies van der Rohe’s Lake Shore Drive Apartments Louis Sullivan’s cast-iron filigree adorning Carson’s was at the top of the list until it was boarded up again once Carson’s vacated. Mies, though, never...
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Jeff Carter at Mies van der Rohe’s Crown Hall, IIT Jeff Carter’s sculptures of buildings, assembled from IKEA parts, played with the famous dictum “form follows function,” which influenced a score of...
View ArticleBest of Chicago 2023
Best of Chicago icons, those enduring people, places and things that have been present with us for most, if not all of our journey, and that will live on for a long time to come, at least in the...
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