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Daley Center is an exceptional example of the International Style and was Chicago's first major public building designed in a modern, rather than historically derived, style. Innovative for its time were the building's eighty-seven-foot spans of steel framing, its exceptional internal spatial flexibility, and the first-ever use of self-weathering Cor-Ten steel as an exterior skin for a skyscraper. The monumental sculpture on the building's plaza, also fabricated of Cor-Ten steel, was designed by Pablo Picasso, one of the most influential artists of the 20th century.
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