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Originally Posted by BonoboZill4
Wow that shot is ridiculous! Aon and Hancock wear the winter so well. They almost look they were built for cold weather pictures
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In the case of all of Chicago's black Miesian towers they literally were designed to look good in cold weather. The color black during the early Modernist period was popular because it hid the industrial grime that so blighted older stone and terra cotta towers (mainly coal soot) and also because it contrasted grey dreary skies and snow so well. The idea was to make the tower pop against a backdrop of clouds.