talking about great architecture!

Built in the mid-1920s for the Chicago Tribune, this iconic Gothic Revival skyscraper on the Magnificent Mile is now being turned into condominiums. The Tribune Tower is clad with Indiana limestone, and came about after a design competition to mark the paper’s 75th anniversary. At night you’ll get a clear view of the buttresses and tracery at the very top, while there are lots of details to discover on the lower storeys. In the years before the tower went up, the Tribune’s publisher Robert R. McCormick had asked his correspondents to bring him fragments of famous monuments from around the world. So, embedded in the stonework are pieces from the Hagia Sophia, Taj Mahal, the Butter Tower of Rouen Cathedral, the Alamo, the Great Pyramid and the Great Wall of China, to name a few. #urbanexplorer #themeparks#nationalpark#lakes#beaches#infinitypool