Farnsworth House

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's Farnsworth House Guided Tour, Plano, Illinois, September 30, 2017 4/5

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's Farnsworth House guided tour, Plano, Illinois, September 30, 2017. Note that there is no video of the house's interior. Photography and recording of the interior was not allowed, without prior clearance.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's Farnsworth House Guided Tour, Plano, Illinois, September 30, 2017 2/5

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's Farnsworth House guided tour, Plano, Illinois, September 30, 2017. Note that there is no video of the house's interior. Photography and recording of the interior was not allowed, without prior clearance.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's Farnsworth House Guided Tour, Plano, Illinois, September 30, 2017 3/5

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's Farnsworth House guided tour, Plano, Illinois, September 30, 2017. Note that there is no video of the house's interior. Photography and recording of the interior was not allowed, without prior clearance.

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Plano High School, Plano Illinois

Phantom 3 Standard drone flight at the Plano High School

So What's So Wrong

Virginia Hill and Band Perform a Jamming rendition of their orignal song So What's So Wrong at Daniel's Den in Plano, Illinois on November 16, 2007.

Rare 1940's photos of Mies Van der Rohe's Illinois Institute of Technology with music by Esquivel

Rare 1940's campus photos of Mies Van der Rohe's Illinois Institute of Technology with music by Esquivel - Street Scene composed by Alfred Newman. As mentioned in the eBook novel Waiting for the Real World to Catch Up! by IIT Architecture alumni Brian S. Alexander. 21 original campus photos were taken circa 1949-50 by IIT student Carl W. Condit and have never been shown or published! Scottrick, a crazed inventor, was always chasing rainbows (He even studied Architecture at IIT) - Now it's your turn, buy the eBook and let loose his marvelous, madcap, mayhem. With special celebrity cameos by Tina Fey, Meredith Vieira, Martha Stewart, and others. Now available for the Kindle, Nook, iPad, and more.

Lakewood Springs in Plano

Visit our beautiful Lakewood Springs community in Plano, IL, for both single family homes starting in the $160s and duplex homes starting in the $130s.

Re: larry the cable guy in Plano Illinois...

Larry the cable Get's R Done in Plano Illinois. Filming his new movie Witless Protection he used several sites in Plano. This video shot on May 22nd 2007 shows is one of the autograph and photo opportunity moments. . .

Ludwing Mies Van Der Rohe

Ludwing Mies Van Der Rohe works 1907 to 1973.

Canadá
Toronto-Dominion Centre - Complejo de torres de oficinas, Toronto
Westmount Square - Complejo de torres de oficinas y viviendas, Westmount
Nuns' Island - 3 torres de viviendas y la gasolinera Nun's Island (cerrada), Montreal (c.1969)
República Checa
Casa Tugendhat - Vivienda, Brno (1930), junto a Lilly Reich
Alemania
Casa Riehl - Vivienda, Potsdam (1907)
Casa Perls - Vivienda, Zehlendorf (1911)
Casa Werner - Vivienda, Zehlendorf (1913)
Casa Urbig - Vivienda, Potsdam (1917)
Casa Kempner - Vivienda, Charlottenburg (1922)
Casa Eichstaedt - Vivienda, Wannsee (1922)
Casa Feldmann - Vivienda, Wilmersdorf (1922)
El Rascacielos del Friedrichstraße (1922) - No construido
Casa Ryder - Vivienda, Wiesbaden (1923)
Casa Mosler - Vivienda, Babelsberg (1926)
Liebknecht-Luxemburg-Monumento 'Revolutionsdenkmal'- Monumento Berlín (1926)4​
Weissenhofsiedlung - Concurso de viviendas coordinado por Mies y con contribución del mismo, Stuttgart (1927), junto a Lilly Reich
Casa Lemke - Vivienda, Weissensee (1932), junto a Lilly Reich
Casa Lange/Casa Dr. Ester - Vivienda y museo de arte, Krefeld, junto a Lilly Reich
Neue Nationalgalerie - Museo de arte moderno, Berlín (1968)
España
Pabellón alemán - Pabellón de la Exposición Internacional, Barcelona (1929), junto a Lilly Reich
Estados Unidos
Cullinan Hall - Museo de Arte, Houston
Apartamentos The Promontory - Complejo residencial de apartamentos, Chicago
Biblioteca Memorial Martin Luther King, Jr. - Biblioteca pública del distrito de Columbia, Washington, DC
Richard King Mellon Hall of Science - Universidad de Duquesne, Pittsburgh (1968)
IBM Plaza - Torre de oficinas, Chicago
Apartamentos Lake Shore Drive - Torres de apartamentos, Chicago (1949)
Edificio Seagram - Torre de oficinas, Nueva York (1958)
Alumni Memorial Hall - Instituto de Tecnología de Illinois (1945)
Carr Memorial Chapel - Capilla del Instituto de Tecnología de Illinois (1949)
Crown Hall - Colegio de Arquitectura del Instituto de Tecnología de Illinois (1956)
Administración de la Escuela de Servicios Sociales de la Universidad de Chicago - Chicago (1965)
Casa Farnsworth - Vivienda, Plano, Illinois (1946)
Chicago Federal Center
Dirksen Federal Building - Torre de oficinas, Chicago
Kluczynski Federal Building - Torre de oficinas, Chicago
United States Post Office Loop Station - Oficina general de Correos, Chicago
One Illinois Center - Torre de oficinas, Chicago
One Charles Center - Torre de oficinas, Baltimore, Maryland
Casa Condominio Highfield | 4000 North Charles - Condominio de apartamentos, Baltimore, Maryland
Apartamentos Colonnade and Pavilion - Complejo residencial de apartamentos, Newark, Nueva Jersey (1959)
Lafayette Park - Complejo residencial de apartamentos, Detroit, Michigan (1963)
Apartamentos Commonwealth Promenade - Complejo residencial de apartamentos, Chicago (1957)
Edificio Caroline Weiss Law, Cullinan Hall (1958) y Brown Pavilion (1974), Museo de arte, Houston
Edificio Richard King Mellon (1968) en la Universidad de Duquesne, Pittsburgh
Edificio American Life - Louisville, Kentucky (1973; terminado tras la muerte de Mies por Bruno Conterato)
México
Oficinas Bacardi (1961), Ciudad de México

Lego Architecture stop motion

Stop motion video of the new Lego Architecture Farnsworth House located in Plano, Illinois USA. sorry for the low light

Jenny McCarthy in Plano Illinois . . .

Jenny McCarthy is in Plano Illinois June 14 2007 filming Witless Protection with Larry the Cable Guy and a cast of others. This is the Flo's Main Street Diner set after a production wrap on June 14 2007. I'll try to get more for you today :)

25 must-see buildings in Illinois

Willis Tower, Chicago: The Sears Tower, now known as Willis Tower, was the tallest building in the world when it was completed in 1973, a position it would hold for the next 25 years. Originally, the building was constructed to consolidate all merchandising offices of the Sears & Roebuck company into one building.
Wrigley Field, Chicago: Located on Chicago's near North Side, the ivy-studded Wrigley Field has been the home of Chicago Cubs baseball since 1916. The oldest National League ball park was designed by Zachary Taylor Davis in 1914 for the Chicago Whales of the Federal League, with a single deck capable of seating 14,000 spectators.
Millennium Park, Chicago: Situated at the north end of Grant Park, Millennium Park entices thousands of visitors to stop, look and listen, every day. In 1997, Mayor Daley commissioned a team to design a park over existing railroad tracks.
Illinois Institute of Technology Campus, Chicago: Designed in 1940 by a founder of Modern architecture, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) academic campus is comprised of 26 buildings in a 60-acre densely urban setting, which set the precedent for modernist campus design. (Thomas Jefferson’s University of Virginia “quadrangle” plan was the prior traditional style.) IIT is laid out on a 24 feet horizontal by 12 feet vertical modular grid, which determined the scale and placement for structures and open space on the campus. Mies himself designed 14 of the buildings while director of the school’s architecture program from 1938-1958, utilizing a simple palette of steel, glass and buff-colored brick, reflecting the industrial buildings of Chicago’s South Side.
Galena Main Street: Galena's Main Street contains one of the best collections of mid-19th century commercial buildings in the country. The street is even more distinctive because of its curve, which follows the topography of the hill and the Fever River.
Art Institute of Chicago: Originally constructed in 1893 as the World's Colombian Exposition Congress Auxiliary Building, the AIC school and galleries are located in Chicago’s Landmark Historic Michigan Boulevard District in the Loop community area bounded by Grant Park on the east. The core of the current complex, opposite Adams Street, officially opened in December 1893, and was renamed the Allerton Building in 1968.
Chicago Riverwalk: Often called the Second City’s second lakefront, the Riverwalk is an urban, pedestrian, linear park, located on the south bank of the Chicago River in downtown Chicago, spanning from Lake Shore Drive to Franklin Street. It is a great discovery point to the city’s laboratory for architectural innovation in significant skyscrapers, museums, theaters, bridges, homes, universities, houses of worship and commerce.
Farnsworth House, Plano: Designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in 1951 for Edith Farnsworth, the house is located near Plano in an organic, rural setting on the banks of the Fox River. In contrast to the native grounds, the house is one of the most exactingly detailed works of modernist domestic architecture, cleverly engineered to stand up from the ground in response to its flood-prone location.
Dana-Thomas House, Springfield: The Dana-Thomas House is one of the largest and most intact of the Prairie School houses designed by Frank Lloyd Wright during the first decade of the 20th century. The Prairie School period marked a major change in American residential architecture, with the use of natural materials and an emphasis on form rather than applied ornament.
Starved Rock Lodge, Utica: Built on a wooded bluff overlooking the Illinois River, the Starved Rock State Park design reflected the increasing democratization of American recreation in the first half of the 20th century. The lodge was part of a concerted effort under Governor Henry Horner and Robert Kingery, director of the Department of Public Works and Buildings, to expand and create accessibility in the Illinois state park system.
State Capitol Building, Springfield: The design for Illinois’ fifth state capitol, by Chicago’s John Crombie Cochran with his partner, French-born architect Alfred Piquenard, was the winning entry in an 1867 competition. Completed at a cost of $4.5 million, the Illinois State Capitol building is an elaborate Second Empire edifice with a tall Renaissance-style dome separating the two cameral wings.
Haish Memorial Library, DeKalb: Over the past hundred years, DeKalb’s public library has evolved from a modest reading room furnished with gas lights and magazines to a beautiful and architecturally significant stand-alone building offering a wide variety of services, programs and up-to-date research technology. The community-minded spirit that led the local ladies of the Library Whist Club to found it in 1893 has remained for decades.
Naper Settlement, Naperville: A living history village, Naper Settlement tells the story of how life was transformed throughout the 19th century from

Architectural Manifestos

A look at three architectural manifestos. Philip Johnson, Mies Van Der Rohe by Philip Johnson, and Five Architects.

Larry the Cable Guy in Plano Illinois again . . .

Larry the Cable Guy returns to Plano Illinois once again to continue to film Witless Protection. Larry takes time between scenes to sign autographs. Also there was Jenny McCarthy (Playboy model) and Yaphett Kotto (the mechanic from Alien). They took over Plano's Main street Diner (now called Flo's for the movie) to film several scenes from the move. They are there today too trying to finish. . .

Billy Wrestling - 04/22/07 Plano Open

Billy's first match of the day at the Plano Open 04/22/07

Tostito's & Honey

Jake eats Tostito's with Honey, and he likes 'em.

13969 Hale Road, Plano, Illinois