Room with a view

Unit 2601

A few steps from the buildings own grocery store, you pass the door man and take the elevator up to 26th floor. At the end of the hall, when you…

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Unit 1815

Right on the Lake Shore and two minutes to walk from Watertower Place, you pass the green marble entrance hall and take the elevator up to 18th floor. Right on…

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The Building

The Esplanade Apartments are two of the four buildings designed by Mies van der Rohe and built by Herbert Greenwald on Lake Shore Drive between Chestnut and Walton Streets. The…

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The Neighborhood

The Esplanade Apartments were the first high-rise buildings designed by Mies to fully implement a continuous exterior curtain wall that was articulated separate from the building’s structural frame. This technology…

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The City

Chicago, on Lake Michigan in Illinois, is among the largest cities in the U.S. Famed for its bold architecture, it has a skyline punctuated by skyscrapers such as the iconic…

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Mies van der Rohe

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (March 27, 1886 – August 17, 1969) was a German-American architect. Along with Alvar Aalto, Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius and Frank Lloyd Wright, he is regarded…

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