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- The Chicago Federal Center, designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, is a monument to the architect’s maxim, “Less is more.” Simplified, modern and efficient, the steel and glass buildings embody the Miesian vocabulary. Its 1974 completion signified a new era in the form and function of public architecture.
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The Chicago Federal Center, designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, is a monument to the architect’s maxim, “Less is more.” Simplified, modern and efficient, the steel and glass buildings embody the Miesian vocabulary.
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The John C. Kluczynski Federal Building is a skyscraper in the downtown Chicago Loop located at 230 South Dearborn Street. The 45-story structure was designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and completed in 1974 as the last portion of the new Federal Center.
The Chicago Federal Center, designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and completed in 1974, consists of three buildings which are arranged around and define the Chicago Federal Plaza. On the eastern side of South Dearborn Street sits the 30-story Everett M. Dirksen U.S. Courthouse.
Widely acclaimed and admired, the Chicago Federal Center is one of Mies’s final and finest works, projecting the dignity of its federal purpose through scale, material, and proportion, rather than by referencing historic styles, and thus fulfilling the architect’s vision of universal space.
Mies’s Chicago Federal Center, widely acclaimed, is his final architectural masterpiece, embodying the dignity of its federal purpose through scale, material, and proportion, rather than by referring to historical styles, and fulfilling the architect’s vision mission to create universal spaces.
The Chicago Federal Plaza consists of three buildings, the Everett McKinley Dirksen Building, the John C Kluczynski Building and the U.S. Post Office-Loop Station. The three buildings were primarily designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and completed between 1959 and 1974.
