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The Wainwright Building
1891
St. Louis, Missouri
w_lemay · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Louis Sullivan's answer to what a tall building should look like: emphasise the height, run the piers unbroken up the face, and stop apologising for the steel frame. Frank Lloyd Wright called it the first honest skyscraper, and Sullivan's phrase for the idea was that form follows function.
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