Carved into the lobby walls are famous quotations from Benjamin Franklin, Voltaire, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, praising and exalting freedom of the press.
Inside, visitors encounter a Hall of Inscriptions. The building's crown recalls a Medieval European tower, imitating the Butter Tower of the 13th-century Rouen Cathedral in France. The lower office block is sheathed in Indiana limestone with vertical piers and horizontal spandrels characteristic of Art Deco. Miami-based Agave Holdings, the real estate arm of the family-owned company that makes Jose Cuervo tequila, is nearing an 85 million deal for a smaller 28-story building at 225 W. Hood and Howells’ winning Gothic Revival tower used architectural ideas borrowed from the past. Lorie Westerman, CAF Docent Class of 2006 McCormick's design continues to impress us today, even as the role of newspapers has changed. 8 hours ago &0183 &32 CHICAGO (CBS) - Its a construction kick-off 12 years in the making. Colonel McCormick wanted the Tribune to be seen as an important and international newspaper and so he held a design competition to create nothing less than "the most beautiful office building in the world." He asked his international reporters to gather fragments of some of the most historically important buildings in the world to incorporate into the building's exterior. The Tribune Tower’s style demonstrates the way architecture can create an image and impression of the company that occupies it. However, the winning entry-designed by New York architects Raymond Hood and John Mead Howells-filled the permitted occupiable building envelope with floor after floor of office space.Ī Cathedral for Journalism A Docent Perspective Italian architect Saverio Dioguardi proposed a large classical arch resembling the Arch De Triomphe in Paris. Austrian architect Adolf Loos proposed a giant Doric column, which may have been a pun on the columns printed in the newspaper. Some European entries, however, sacrificed business practicality for a more monumental form. Most American entries understood the profitability of the site and maximized the amount of rentable office space in their designs. Load Another FactĪlthough 23 countries were represented in the competition, most design entries came from the U.S. The creatures and figures tucked into the tracery above the Tribune Tower's entrance represent animals from Aesop's fables-including the fox and the grapes and the crow and the pitcher. On the top left and right corners of the main entrance, the architects included references to themselves in the tracery-a howling dog (Howells) and a Robin Hood figure (Hood). Did You KnowĬolonel McCormick, the newspaper’s owner during its headquarters' construction, had secret doors and passageways built which lead to the crown-just in case the building was ever stormed. The earliest fragments were brought back to Chicago by Tribune correspondents at the request of Colonel McCormick and the tradition has been carried on. A collection of building fragments from around the world are embedded into the building’s stone facade.
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