Architecture Around the World ................. Other Chicago buildings
Tribune Tower
435 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois
Official Tribune Tower Website
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Erected: |
1923-1925 |
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Architect: |
Howells & HoodñJohn Mead Howells and Raymond Hood |
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Gothic Revival modeled after the Butter Tower at Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Rouen |
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Steel and Indiana limestone |
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Painting: |
Tribune Tower, by Carl F. Zoschke |
TEXT beneath illustrations
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1935 courtyard with a statue of Nathan Hale. |
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Display window surround |
Ancient Temple |
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In 1922, the Chicago Tribune hosted an international design competition for its new headquarters and offered a $50,000 prize for "the most beautiful and eye-catching building in the world." The competition worked brilliantly as a publicity stunt, and the resulting entries still reveal a unique turning point in American architectural history. More than 260 entries were received. The entry that many perceived as the best - a radically simplified tower by the Finnish architect Eliel Saarinen - took second place. Saarinen's tower, which anticipated the coming impact of stripped-down modernism on building form, was preferred by critics like Louis Sullivan, and was a strong influence on the next generation of skyscrapers - including Raymond Hood's own subsequent work on the McGraw-Hill Building and Rockefeller Center. |
