900 I 910 N.Lake Shore Drive by Mies Van der Rohe, Chicago
Few buildings in the world reflect the iconic nature of a city like 900 910 N Lake Shore embodies Chicago. Designed by German architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and built out of concrete, glass, aluminum and steel by Herbert Greenwald in 1955, the buildings are “giant mirrors for lake beauty.” The buildings showcase the refined high-rise residential design in the International Modernist style Mies helped define in Europe.
“Nature, too, shall live its own life. We must beware not to disrupt it with the color of our houses and interior fittings. Yet we should attempt to bring nature, houses, and human beings together into a higher unity. ”
