No effort would be made to clothe these structures in the dowdy respectability of ancient designs. Notice how the entire building is unified, each design element serving every other. See how it celebrates its height, emphasizing with columns and arches that it does rise to scrape the sky. Sadly, few if any Chicago School buildings were designed after 1910. Even more tragically, many of the finest examples have been destroyed for redevelopment.
Plenty remain, though, to allow a full appreciation of the movement.
With the demise of the Chicago School, Chicago architects joined their East Coast counterparts in adapting classical designs to contemporary skyscraper architecture. Many of this second generation of neo-classical architects learned to better apply ancient styles to the size and scale of modern buildings. While New York is the capital of the Art Deco skyscraper movement, Chicago has several extraordinary examples to offer. Note the marvelous fa ade friezes and the interior celebration of multi-layered marble. Modernism, international style and Mies Chicago's second great contribution to skyscraper architecture comes thanks to Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, generally called Mies, a German architect who found little work in Nazi Germany and moved to Chicago.