To really appreciate Mies van der Rohe try walking in and around his buildings located at 860 and 880 N. Lake Shore Drive which are cooperatives. Two adjoining buildings located at 900 and 910 N. Lake Shore Drive are condominiums and were constructed as replicates of the original Mies properties."The scheme consists of two identical 26-story towers placed 46 feet apart with their long axes set perpendicular to each other. The steel skeletal frame is based on a 21-foot grid and is clearly expressed in the elevations, indicated by black-painted steel sheets covering the fireproofed columns and beams. The rigorous consistency of the design is seen in the uniform treatment of each building face regardless of orientation. Each bay is subdivided into four window units by three wide-flange steel mullions. A supplementary mullion is welded to the face of the exterior by the others. Within these divisions aluminum-framed floor-to- ceiling windows are set. The significance of this work is a pioneer curtain-wall expression as well as a fulfillment of the all-glass skyscraper schemes proposed by Mies three decades earlier."
— A. James Speyer. Mies van der Rohe. p26.
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