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There are many reasons to celebrate architecture and design in the coming months as these venerable institutions, iconic products, and key texts mark an anniversary this year…
Brothers-in-law Louis Skidmore and Nathaniel Owings first worked together on the Century of Progress exposition plan in Chicago in 1933, but then went their separate ways. But a 1935 meeting at Paddington Station in London rekindled the partnership, and the architecture firm was founded on January 1, 1936, at 104 South Michigan in Chicago.