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Article: Arts Club Loses Lease; City Loses an Original
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- March 30, 1994
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Another piece of Chicago-ana may soon be a thing of the past.
A plan for a new retail center in the 600 block of North
Michigan Avenue would mean the demolition of a building that houses
the only public interior in the country designed completely by famed
architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
"I think this is one of the most important modern interiors in
the country by one of the important and great architects of the 20th
century," said Myron Goldsmith, an architect who worked with Mies van
der Rohe for seven years. "This is a real Mies interior. It's the
only one in the United States, except his own apartment."
The developer, the John Buck Co., is planning to tear down a
square block ...