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Thursday, June 21, 2012

Jenney's Home Insurance Building lives on - in Lego . Build Your Own Lego City at Crown Hall July 21

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photographs: Bob Johnson William Le Baron Jenney 's Home Insurance Building , often referred to as the world's first true skyscr...

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Monday, March 26, 2012

That Mies - He's So Colorful!

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Crown Hall meets Unité d'Habitation. Google Australia gets the jump on Mies van der Rohe's 126th birthday, Tuesday, March 27th,...

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Tuesday, September 06, 2011

Mies on LSD (a rare trip), John Vinci on Hyde Park, plus Hump Hair Pin and yet another Bertrand Goldberg exhibition - still more for September

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So we just put up the September Calendar of Chicago Architectural Events and we're already adding items. On Tuesday, the 13th, John Vi...

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Sunday, March 27, 2011

A Birthday Offering for Mies - the debut of The Architects Page

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click images for larger views His birthday was actually on Sunday, but the Mies van der Rohe Society is celebrating the 125th anniversary o...

Sunday, December 12, 2010

Mies Tweets! (and he's got a great new website, too)

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click images for larger view The Mies van der Rohe society has just launched a new website, designed by Scott Thomas , whose credits include...

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