Chicago, June 10, 1922

International Design Competition for the Chicago’s new headquartes. The Chicago

Tribune,

thecity's oldest and most important newspaper,

offered a $50,000 prize for the

winning design of“The most beautiful and

distinctive office building in the world”

The Competition

Gottlieb Eliel Saarinen (August 20, 1873, Rantasalmi, Finland – July 1, 1950, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, United States) was a Finnish architect who became famous for his art nouveau buildings in the early years of the 20th century.

Eliel Saarinen

Saarinen's tower took the second place and anticipated the coming impact of stripped-down modernism on building form.

Tribune Tower Woolworth Building

...Where to find the Tribune Tower

..and Woolworth Building

It is well-known that Saarinen's design strongly influenced the American Radiator Building.

American Radiator Building

The 1929 Gulf Building in Houston is a full realization of that Saarinen desing.

Gulf Building

181 West Madison Street Building is also thought to be inspired by Saarinen's design.

W. Madison

Walter Adolph Georg Gropius (May 18, 1883 – July 5, 1969) was a German architect and founder of the Bauhaus School who, along with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier, is widely regarded as one of the pioneering masters of modern architecture.

Walter Gropius

The third place entry was submitted by Walter Gropius, best known as the founder of the Bauhaus in Dessau, Germany. His design for the Tribune building shares many of the same attributes as his ironic design for the Bauhaus Building.

Honorable mention went to Alfred T. Fellheimer (March 9, 1875–1959), known as a designer of theaters and railroad stations. His most famous work is the fabulous

Cincinatti Union Terminal.

Cincinnati Union Terminal

Fellheimer's Obelisk

Adolf Loos (10 December 1870 – 23 August 1933) was a Moravian-born Austrian architect. He was influential in European Modern architecture, in his essay Ornament and Crime he repudiated the florid style of the Vienna Secession, the Austrian version of Art Nouveau.

Adolf Loos

Loos' Tribune Tower

Fisher's Twirling Tower (Dubai)

Dubai resembles the Chicago Competition for its headquarters.David Fisher owes his rotating tower in Dubai to Loos'Tribune Tower.

R. HoodJ. M. Howells

..a neo-Gothic design by New York architects John Mead Howells and Raymond Hood

and the winner is….

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