Caixa de Amortização, Rio de Janeiro
Haussmannian urban renewal in the tropics, a facade competition, and a precursor to the Central Bank of Brazil.
Birck-Fellinger Corp., Chicago
"America's Model Cleaning Plant" no more
Ministry of Education & Health Building / Palácio Gustavo Capanema, Rio de Janeiro
The big bang of Brazilian modernism...but someone else won the initial design competition.
Radio City, San Francisco
Born a white elephant, one of the least streamlined Streamline Moderne buildings.
Crematorium, Chapel & Vault, Oak Woods Cemetery, Chicago
Soon after first firing the crematorium here in 1909, the management at Oak Woods Cemetery turned around and instituted a color line—racist even in death, “we only burn white bodies here”.