Inland Steel Building
building, Chicago, Illinois, United States
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design by Graham and Netsch
- In Skidmore, Owings & Merrill: The influence of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
…the groundbreaking design for the Inland Steel Building (1958) in Chicago. The building was conceived as two towers: the first, an elegant 19-story office tower with a green-tinted glass curtain wall framed by stainless steel beams (appropriate for a building housing the offices of a steel producer), and the second,…
Read More - In Walter Netsch: Inland Steel Building
The Inland Steel Building features a 19-story office tower with a green-tinted glass curtain wall and a 25-story service unit, which is sheathed in stainless steel panels (in homage to the company) and houses the building’s mechanical functions. The service tower allows for unobstructed space in…
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