The Skyscraper Museum is devoted to the study of high-rise building, past, present, and future. The Museum explores tall buildings as objects of design, products of technology, sites of construction, investments in real estate, and places of work and residence. This site will look better in a browser that supports web standards, but it is accessible to any browser or Internet device.
the chicago tribune tower
Howells & Hood, completed 1925
Collection of The Skyscraper Museum.
Howells & Hood won the competition and became the architects for the 426-foot, 36-story tower, which was constructed of steel, but clad in limestone and ornamented with finials, gargoyles, and other neo-medieval sculptures. Although conservative in style, the Howells & Hood made the point that their design treats the tower as one unit, rather than as a series of setback masses. In this sense the Tribune Tower points the way to the more modern expression of the skyscraper that Howells & Hood would produce for the Daily News Building in New York in 1930.
