Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, Laboratory Building, Three-Story Building with Pilotis

In this early version of the plan for IIT, Mies imagined that the campus would include a number of buildings raised on slender piloti, or piers, creating an open and continuous green space. While the piloti were not used in the final design because of their high cost, they are one of the features that most directly recall the project’s European antecedents.