Chicago Tribune Tower.- International Competition (The) for a New Administration Building for the Chicago Tribune MCMXXII containing all the designs submitted in response to the Chicago Tribune's $100,000 offer commemorating its seventy fifth anniversary, June 10, 1922, first edition, plates, original coarse hessian, paper label on upper cover, rubbed at edges, rebacked in morocco, small narrow folio, Chicago, 1923.
⁂ Fascinating collection of 260 designs for the tower including contributions by Walter Gropius, & Adolf Meyer, Adolf Loos and Bruno Taut, mostly along the lines of a skyscraper but some decidedly eccentric. The competition was won by John Mead Howells and Raymond M.Hood of New York, with second prize going to Eliel Saarinen of Finland.