Legendary father of the International Style of Architecture, Ludwig Mies van Der Rohe's twin glass tower apartments 860-880 Lake Shore Drive dubbed the 'Glass House''Apartments, were a radical departure from the traditional apartment buildings of the late 1940s when this project was first conceived.
Being too controversial in design, this project was initially rejected for construction funding by some of Chicago's leading financiers. These towers went on to become one of the seminal minimalist structures that defined the International Style and became the inspiration for steel and glass towers that envelope urban spaces worldwide.
Edition29 Structures is featuring these landmark works of structural living art as cinematically stunning multimedia stories in its iPad edition.
