IN PRIZES TO ARCHITECTS
Seventy-five years old today, The Tribune seeks surpassing beauty in new home on Michigan Boulevard
T
HE TRIBUNE herewith offers $100, 000. 00 in prizes for designs for a building to be erected on its vacant lot at North Michigan Boulevard and Austin Avenue. Commemoration of our Seventy-fifth Birthday is made in this manner for three reasons:
— to adorn with a monument of enduring beauty this city, in which The Tribune has prospered so amazingly.
— to create a structure which will be an inspiration and a model for generations of newspaper publishers.
— to provide a new and beautiful home worthy of the world’s
greatest newspaper.
The contest will be under the rules of the American Institute of Architects. Competition will be open and international. Each competitor will be required to submit drawings showing the west and south elevations and perspective from the southwest, of a new building to be erected on The Tribune’s property at the corner of North Michigan Blvd. and Austin Ave. Architects desiring complete information are requested to write to
Robert R. McCormick, Joseph M. Patterson, Editors and Publishers
SEVENTY- FIVE YEARS OLD TODAY
This page is reprinted from The Chicago Tribune of June 10, 1922.
Seventy-five years old today, The Tribune seeks surpassing beauty in new home on Michigan Boulevard
T
HE TRIBUNE herewith offers $100, 000. 00 in prizes for designs for a building to be erected on its vacant lot at North Michigan Boulevard and Austin Avenue. Commemoration of our Seventy-fifth Birthday is made in this manner for three reasons:
— to adorn with a monument of enduring beauty this city, in which The Tribune has prospered so amazingly.
— to create a structure which will be an inspiration and a model for generations of newspaper publishers.
— to provide a new and beautiful home worthy of the world’s
greatest newspaper.
The contest will be under the rules of the American Institute of Architects. Competition will be open and international. Each competitor will be required to submit drawings showing the west and south elevations and perspective from the southwest, of a new building to be erected on The Tribune’s property at the corner of North Michigan Blvd. and Austin Ave. Architects desiring complete information are requested to write to
Robert R. McCormick, Joseph M. Patterson, Editors and Publishers
SEVENTY- FIVE YEARS OLD TODAY
This page is reprinted from The Chicago Tribune of June 10, 1922.