Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Architect Mies van der Rohe in a black and white photograph. In the 1950s, he designed a frat house. In 2022, that design opened ...

“My role was to make sure Mies could build the building he wanted to build.” Sixty-five years after the completion of the Seagram Building, Phyllis Lambert talks to Vladimir Belogolovsky about Mies ...

Among architect, interior designer and academic Mies van der Rohe‘s many talents was an innate ability to refine an object’s form without making it feel too cold and clinical. Regarding his furniture ...

LOOK up—and anywhere in the U.S. the building, if it is relatively new, and certainly if it is of steel, will bear traces of Mies van der Rohe. In a time of confusion, he was a purist. In an era of ...

If philanthropist Sidney Eskenazi had not been a member of Indiana University’s Pi Lambda Phi fraternity in 1952, Bloomington likely would not be the home to a newly constructed building designed by ...

The revitalization of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library in Washington, D.C., is the crowning achievement of the two-decades-long effort to overhaul the district’s 26 public library branches, ...

What makes a purchase “worth it”? The answer is different for everybody, so we’re asking some of the coolest, most shopping-savvy people we know—from small-business owners to designers, artists, and ...

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, a giant of 20th century architecture whose hard-edged modern buildings dot the map of Chicago, lived in a building that was definitely not miesian. From 1940, three years ...

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A condo unit belonging to Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, the famed 20th century architect, is coming to market this April. Van der Rohe lived in the building, which isn’t in the modernist style he would ...