Place
860 Lake Shore Drive Trust
880 N Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, IL 60611, USA
Twin glass-and-black-steel towers by a pioneering modernist architect, set at right angles above the lake.
This guide to 860 Lake Shore Drive follows developer Herbert Greenwald, who was turned down by four of the world's most famous architects before an unknown German emigre named Ludwig Mies van der Rohe agreed to design his apartment towers. You'll hear about Greenwald's unlikely path from rabbinical studies to real estate, the skeptical lenders who balked at financing something so radical, and the decade the two men spent building together afterward. Look up at the glass and black steel skin above you while you listen.
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