#24. Lake Shore Drive Apts
Tekla North America BIM Awards 2012 / 516 North Lake Shore Drive Apartments
“The project features 500 luxury apartments over 45 levels in Chicago’s Streeterville Neighborhood. To the south of the residential tower is an 11 story parking garage with a rooftop amenities deck. … utilized its building information modeling (BIM) abilities to fully model the parking garage and residential towers. Prior to construction, the BIM work allowed AFI to identify and generate RFI’s prior to construction. There were many instances where coordination issues between structural and architectural drawings were identified and resolved prior to construction. In order to expedite the delivery of the residential tower, … phased the tower ahead of the parking garage. The south bay of the tower through level 11 had to be carefully coordinate to tie into the sloped garage levels to the south. Shoring layout drawings and coordination were performed entirely in Tekla Structures.
Lake Shore Drive Apts Location: Chicago, Illinios Architect: Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe Year: 1951
Meis and Johnson have a strong connection. They worked at the same time, and Johnson curated an exhibtion of the German exhile’s work at MOMA in 1947. Word is that Mies thought the Glass House was shit, and Johnson’s view of the Lake Shore Drive Apartments is less publicized. What is known, however, is that the twin towers employ a pioneering use of glass curtain walls.
