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Tribune Tower, designed by architects John Mead Howells and Raymond Hood in 1925, resulted from an international competition held in 1922 by the Chicago Tribune for “the most beautiful office building in the world.” The competition proved extremely influential in the development of skyscraper architecture in the 1920s. Its crowning tower, with flying buttresses derived from the French cathedral of Rouen, gives the building a striking silhouette.
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