Chicago Style Office Buildings

For a brief period during the 1890’s, Adler and Sullivan office design was a standard in St. Louis. By the turn of the century, however, the work of a number of other Chicago architects had come to influence the tall office building. The Chicago style, as their work came to be known, stressed verticality and an increased emphasis on the external representation of interior structure, and came to revolutionize the design of downtown office buildings. (St. Louis, 1995)