Detail View: Design Library Image Collection: Lake Shore and Esplanade Apartments
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Accession Number:
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135947
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Order Title:
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Archivision Base Collection--16,370 images
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Type of View:
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partialView
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View Title:
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View of the base of 910, from east, with swimming pool in background
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Date of View:
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10/1/1995
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Image description:
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In 1956 the complex was extended with another pair of towers at 900¿910 Lake Shore Drive called Esplanade Apartments, also designed by Mies.
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Image Rights:
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¿ Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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Source Institution:
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Archivision, Inc.
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Collection:
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Archivision Base Collection
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Culture:
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American
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Work Types:
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Architecture; multiple dwellings; apartment houses
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Work Types:
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buildings; multistory buildings; high-rise buildings; skyscrapers
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Preferred Title:
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Lake Shore and Esplanade Apartments
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Agent Display:
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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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Date:
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1948-1951 (creation)
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Materials:
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concrete; steel; glass
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Technique:
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construction (assembling)
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Measurement:
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254 ft (height)
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Alternate Title:
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860-880 Lake Shore Drive Apartments [complex]
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Locations:
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Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Location Type:
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(site)
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Style/Period:
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Modernist
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Style/Period:
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International Style (modern European architecture style)
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Classification:
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Architecture
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