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Chicago Tribune Tower

A perspective drawing of a skyscraper with beveled corners and some gothic ornament. The skyscraper fills the block it is on and tapers only in the top quarter, where flying buttresses support a small central tower.
A perspective drawing of a skyscraper with distinct corners. The verticality of the skyscraper is emphasized by narrow bands that run from bottom to top. Beginning about half way up from the ground level, the tower narrows every few stories in a stepped, setback fashon.
Raymond Hood, winning entry
Eliel Saarinen, second prize

The American architect Louis Sullivan wrote in a famous critique of the competition results that Saarinen’s design should have been “placed first, where it belongs by virtue of its beautifully controlled and virile power.”

Hood and Howells’s winning design, in contrast, he wanted to demote “to the level of those works evolved of dying ideas.”