April 16, 2005 (CHICAGO) —AP- The Illinois Institute of Technology on Chicago's South Side is auctioning off a chance to smash a plate-glass window at its architectural masterpiece, Crown Hall.
The auction began yesterday and continues through April 22nd on e-Bay. It gives the winning bidder a chance to smash the first of 204 panes of glass that will be replaced this summer. The building is being restored and the next phase will renovate the building's steel frame.
The building was experimental at the time it was designed in the mid-1950s, and the architect, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe didn't put enough space between the steel rails in the window frames to account for the metal's expansion as it rusts.
The pressure on the panes led many windows to break over the years.
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