The Competition Design for the Chicago Tribune Tower by Walter Gropius and Adolf Meyer

The design by Walter Gropius and Adolf Meyer for an office and administration building for the Chicago Tribune was executed in 1922. The context was an international competition announced by the Tribune on the occasion of the sixty-fifth jubilee. For decades already, European architects had drawn inspiration from developments in the United States, and the competition represented an initial opportunity to come to terms with the specifically American task of designing a skyscraper.