Inspiration of the Day - 8/26/11

Courtesy Wainwright Building by msabeln

St. Louis, Missouri - (BTT) It's sometimes easy to forget that while certain building types seem commonplace now, there was a single landmark example that started it all. When Dankmar Adler and Louis Sullivan completed the Wainwright Building in 1891, they not only created one of the first skyscrapers ever built, but also the standard by which all future ones would be judged.