Detail View: Design Library Image Collection: Lake Shore and Esplanade Apartments

Accession Number: 
135938
Order Title: 
Archivision Base Collection--16,370 images
Type of View: 
partialView
View Title: 
View looking up southeast corner
Date of View: 
10/1/1995
Image Rights: 
¿ Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
Source Institution: 
Archivision, Inc.
Collection: 
Archivision Base Collection
Culture: 
American
Work Types: 
Architecture; multiple dwellings; apartment houses
Work Types: 
buildings; multistory buildings; high-rise buildings; skyscrapers
Preferred Title: 
Lake Shore and Esplanade Apartments
Agent Display: 
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (German architect, 1886-1969); Pace Associates (American architectural firm, active 1946-1957)
Date: 
1948-1951 (creation)
Materials: 
concrete; steel; glass
Technique: 
construction (assembling)
Measurement: 
254 ft (height)
Alternate Title: 
860-880 Lake Shore Drive Apartments [complex]
Locations: 
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Location Type: 
(site)
Style/Period: 
Modernist
Style/Period: 
International Style (modern European architecture style)
Classification: 
Architecture