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Eliel Saarinen's Tribune Tower design, also called the Saarinen tower, was an unbuilt design for a skyscraper by Finnish architect Eliel Saarinen. It was submitted in 1922 for the architectural competition organized by the Chicago Tribune for their new headquarters. The winning entry, the neo-Gothic Tribune Tower, was constructed in 1925.
Oct 3, 2017 · Eliel Saarinen’s 1922 design at left, with views of the Wells Fargo Center, Bank of America Corporate Tower, and 180 W. Madison Street, all designed by César Pelli. Image Courtesy of...
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Oct 3, 2017 · Eliel Saarinen’s design, a runner up, heavily influenced several North American skyscrapers built as late as the 1990s. A tongue-in-cheek proposal by Austrian architect Adolf Loos to turn the building into an enormous Doric column, playing on the “columns” that compose a newspaper, went on to inspire Postmodernist architects with its ...
Eliel Saarinen’s 1922 design at left, with views of the Wells Fargo Center, Bank of America Corporate Tower, and 180 W. Madison Street, all designed by César Pelli. Image Courtesy of...
Aug 20, 2017 · Interrupted by the First World War and changing tastes, Saarinen moved along with his then-13-year-old son Eero to the United States after his design for the Tribune Tower in Chicago was...
1929. Chicago Tribune, December 3, 1922. The winner was a neo-Gothic design by New York architects John Mead Howells and Raymond Hood, with buttresses near the top. The entry that many perceived as the best—a radically simplified tower by the Finnish architect Eliel Saarinen—took second place and received $20,000.
Address. 435 N. Michigan Ave. Completion Date. 1925. Neighborhood. Near North Side. Use Type. Residential. Architect. Howells & Hood. Style. Gothic Revival. See This Building on a Tour. In 1922, on the occasion of its 75th anniversary, the Chicago Tribune announced an international competition for a new downtown headquarters.
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