Tema: Chicago (EE.UU): Lake Shore Apartments, 82 m, 26 p (Mies van der Rohe)

860-880 LAKE SHORE
DRIVE APARTMENTS

Altura: 82 metros
Nº de plantas: 26
Comienzo de obras: 1948
Año de finalización: 1951
Uso: residencial
Arquitecto: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe


"Along with its twin tower, this building is one of the purest examples of the International Style in a skyscraper. "

Uno de los primeros y más puros ejemplos del Estilo Internacional.




Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's "Glass House" apartment buildings in Chicago.

Paul Gapp, then architectural editor for the Chicago Tribune, wrote the following about the 860-880 Lake Shore Drive Apartments in an article published March 31, 1991:

Chicagoans called Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's twin 26-story apartment towers the "glass houses" when they were built between 1948 and 1951. . . . His lakefront tour de force influenced architects everywhere and in this respect eventually helped change the look of virtually every American city.


The twin high-rises, named after their luxurious addresses, are legends in the lineage of Chicago high-rises and of modern architecture itself. They are among the first tall embodiments of Mies' lifelong meditation on structural clarity. The reticent architect was precise and refined in this work, eloquent from the careful placement of the slabs on the trapezoidal site to the subtly cadenced A-B-B-A rhythm of windows along the perimeter. The most radical feature of the building, though now trite to contemporary eyes because of the countless knock-offs, is the skin-and-bone expression of the steel and glass towers. The steel I-beams effortlessly define the structure while the glass suspends and encloses space. It was, in a way, two buildings that so simply assert their essence that they dematerialize and become 'almost nothing'.












































Más:

http://members.aol.com/richpat/860/comments.htm


http://members.aol.com/richpat123/860/860time3.htm


http://www.galinsky.com/buildings/la...rive/index.htm


http://www.cityofchicago.org/Landmar...860880LSD.html


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Mies_van_der_Rohe



En Emporis:

860 lakeshoredrive

880 lakeshoredrive

Uff, medirán solo 82 metros pero a mi me encantan (como el Seagram), las construcciones de Mies Van Der Rohe no me desagradan. Y yo que veo un edificio "cuadrao" acristalao de estructura negra y se me cae la baba...

Hay que tener en cuenta sobretodo ésto: "Chicagoans called Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's twin 26-story apartment towers the "glass houses" when they were built between 1948 and 1951. . . . His lakefront tour de force influenced architects everywhere and in this respect eventually helped change the look of virtually every American city."

Las torres empezaron a construirse en 1948 con lo que exceptuando bocetos y edificios más pequeños fueron las primeras en su estilo.

Un 10 para un icono arquitectónico e hito de la arquitectura moderna.

De ryan81: