1904 – Union Bank Tower, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Architect: Darling & Pearson
The oldest Chicago School skyscraper still standing in Western Canada was built for the Union Bank of Canada and once boasted the tallest flagpole in the British Empire.
1909 – Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, New York, USA
Architect: Napoleon LeBrun & Sons
The Metropolitan Life Tower was designed by the architectural firm of Napoleon LeBrun &
1913 – Woolworth Building, New York, USA
Architect: Cass Gilbert
The Woolworth Building was constructed in neo-Gothic style by architect Cass Gilbert,
1924 – Wrigley Building, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Architect: Graham, Anderson, Probst and White
William Wrigley, Jr.,
1925 – Chicago Tribune Tower, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Architect: Howells & Hood
The Tribune Company’s 1922 competition to design the “world’s most beautiful office building”
1927 – 35 East Wacker Drive, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Architect: Giaver Dinkelberg Thielbar and Fugard
Formerly known as Jewellers Building,
1927 – The Sherry-Netherland Hotel, New York, USA
Architect: Schulze & Weaver
At streetlevel the hotel seems to be a large formidable mass but eventually narrows for the tower where each floor has only one apartment.
1929 – Chrysler Building, New York, USA
Architect: William Van Alen
A distinctive symbol of New York City,
1929 – Daily News Building, New York, USA
Architect: Raymond Hood
The Daily News Building was the home of the New York Daily News until the mid-1990s.
1929 – Foshay Tower, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Architect: Magney & Tusler
The Foshay was designed by Léon Eugène Arnal,
