Alexander Calder's Flamingo set against Holabird and Roche's Marquette Building

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Western elevation

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Post Office interior view, with Alexander Calder's Flamingo beyond

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Study model for Alexander Calder's Flamingo with final version outside. Shot from inside Mies van der Rohe's Post Office at the Chicago Federal Center.

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The first high-rise building designed by Mies van der Rohe to be built. Originally intended to have a steel and glass curtainwall, the front facade was built with masonry and aluminum framed windows infilling the reinforced concrete structural frame. This was due to steel shortages after World War II. The Promontory Apartments were opened in 1949.

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