All Entries Tagged With: "mies van der rohe"
Iconic Chicago Tower to go from IBM to AMA
A Chicago real estate landmark that was designed by famed Chicago architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe is getting a new tenant, and with it, a new name. The American Medical Association has announced that it will move its Chicago headquarters to the former IBM Plaza at 330 N. Wabash, in September 2013. And when [...]
Chicago-Area Home of Famous Architect For Sale
You know you are buying a good house when your purchase once belonged to the renowned architect who designed it. Such a situation could occur right now. There is a home for sale in Evanston that was designed by architect David Haid, who lived there until he died in 1993 at the age of 64. [...]
Legendary Architect’s Building Gets Demolished
Known as the ‘Test Cell’ and mostly unknown to, if not all architecture buffs or historians, this little building is undergoing demolition on Chicago’s south side. Designed by Mies van der Rohe (or at least by someone in his architecture firm) somehow, someone with more time than architectural taste, had decided to make the case [...]
