Mies van der Rohe Chicago, Architect, Dearborn St Office Building, USA, Date, Designers, Info

Chicago Federal Center : Mies van der Rohe Chicago Architecture

Downtown Chicago Loop Skyscraper: Key 20th Century American Project – Office Building on Dearborn Street

post updated July 6, 2024

Date built: 1959-74

The Kluczynski Federal Building

Modernist skyscraper in Chicago Loop

Location: 230 South Dearborn Street, Chicago, IL 60604, United States

Floors: 42

Architects: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe with Schmidt, Garden & Erickson, C.F. Murphy Associates and A. Epstein & Sons

Sculpture “Flamingo” at Federal Center Plaza, John C. Kluczynski Federal Building, Chicago, Illinois:
Flamingo at Federal Center Plaza
photo : Carol M. Highsmith, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Notes: Gift; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2009:083).; Artist: Alexander Calder, 1974. Painted steel; dimensions: 53 x 24 x 60 feet.; Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration.; Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer.; Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.; Forms part of the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
Date: Taken on 27 August 2007.

Chicago Federal Center

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Mies van der Rohe : Chicago Federal Center architect

Phone: +1 312-353-4475

Owner: General Services Administration

Chicago Federal Center Building at Federal Center Plaza by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, taken on July 18, 2012:
Chicago Federal Center Building
photo : Esther Westerveld from Nieuwkoop, Nederland, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

This 42-story office building is located on Dearborn Street in the Chicago Loop. The project was commissioned by the General Services Administration of the US government as part of a plan initiated in the 1950s to update federal administrative and judiciary facilities nationwide. Begun in 1959, it was designed in full by 1964, with many changes made in the process. Construction was not completed until 1973.
souce: Mies van der Rohe Society

Other Chicago buildings by Mies van der Rohe:

860-880 Lake Shore Apartments
Date built: 1951

Crown Hall + IIT Masterplan
Date built: 1940-
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IBM Building
Date built: 1971

Location: Chicago, Illinois, USA

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