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860–880 Lake Shore Drive (left) has windows attached to structure, not to mullions; Esplanade Apartments at 900–910 Lake Shore Drive (right) were first true curtain-wall high-rises. This building, like many of his Chicago high-rise structures, caused controversy in the pure minimalist community due to its mullions.
The Plaza on DeWitt was the first building in the world to implement the tubular construction method later used for the World Trade Center. [1] Originally called the DeWitt-Chestnut Apartment Building, and designed by Bangladeshi-American engineer Fazlur Rahman Khan while he was working for Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, it was completed in 1966 as a residential apartment building at 260 E ...
Hilliard Towers Apartments, formerly known as the Raymond Hilliard Homes CHA housing project, is a residential high-rise development in the near South Side of Chicago, Illinois. It was designed by Bertrand Goldberg and is bounded by Clark Street , State Street , Cullerton Street, and Cermak Road .
This area became the racial center for blacks in the city and would later develop into the lower-income housed, majority African American area of the city. As a result of these policies and purchasing patterns, Chicago become one of the most racialized cities in the North. During the 1910s and 1920s housing conditions for blacks were dismal.
The tower, built by developer Crescent Heights, has 800 apartments and rises 896 feet (273.1 m) making it the city's tallest rental apartment building. [2] [3] [4] NEMA is the tenth-tallest building in Chicago as of 2024 and the forty first-tallest building in the United States. It is the tallest all-rental residential building in the city. [5]
[3] [4] However, according to the 2006–2008 American Community Survey, German Americans and Irish Americans each had slightly surpassed Polish Americans as the largest European American ethnic groups in Chicago. German Americans made up 7.3% of the population, and numbered at 199,789; Irish Americans also made up 7.3% of the population, and ...
The Brewster Apartments (originally known as Lincoln Park Palace) is a residential building in the Lake View neighborhood of Chicago.. Located at Diversey and Pine Grove (originally Park), it was designed by architect Enock Hill Turnock for Norwegian-native Bjoerne Edwards, publisher of American Contractor, with construction started in 1893 and completed in 1896.
The building's terra-cotta ornamental panels feature conventionalized scenes based upon Native American culture. the roofs of The Narragansett (left) and Powhatan Apartments (right) from Regents Park. This housing cooperative is a residential high-rise on Chicago's South Side. [4] The building also hosts the only 24-hour elevator operators in ...