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Originally Posted by the urban politician
^ Stuff like this was already being designed in the 1920's?
WHAT? That just blew my mind!
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It definitely was, but the US was too busy with faux historicism and revivals to be involved in that.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/glenhsparky/4316553711/
This is a famous project by Mies, in 1921. At the time they didn't think they had the technology to actually build it, so this isn't a "real" project (like the Tribune competition, which was designed to be built). But the building could be built today and I think a lot of people would feel like it is too radical, but it was being imagined 90 years ago.
There are a few renderings of that building floating around, but I like that one in particular because it contrasts so well with the post WWI German streetscape.