The design by Walter Gropius and Adolf Meyer for the Chicago Tribune Tower has now achieved canonical status in modern architecture. It brought the Gropius/Meyer office international renown. Looking back in 1958, Gropius himself explained, ‘When I designed the Chicago Tribune Tower in 1922, I wanted to construct a building that would absolutely avoid using any sort of historical style and instead would express the modern age using modern means – in this case with a reinforced concrete skeleton that was intended to express the building’s functions clearly.’ Although elements such as the balconies have a rather decorative effect and by no means correspond to the functionality of an office building, the design nevertheless became a symbol of the New Architecture and of Bauhaus architecture.