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Foshay Tower
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The Foshay Tower is a prominent Art Deco skyscraper located in Minneapolis, Minnesota, completed in 1929. Designed by renowned architect Harry Wild Jones, the tower stands 32 stories and 447 feet (136 meters) tall, and was once the tallest building in Minnesota. The structure represents a significant example of early twentieth-century American commercial architecture and remains an iconic landmark of the Minneapolis skyline. The building was constructed for businessman…
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Foshay Tower
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Architectural Design
The tower was designed in the Art Deco style, which emphasizes geometric forms, vertical lines, and decorative ornamentation. Harry Wild Jones incorporated distinctive limestone and granite facades, with a distinctive pyramidal crown topped by a beacon that was originally intended to rotate at precisely 847 revolutions per minute—a speed chosen to harmonize with the Earth's natural electromagnetic frequency, though this theory has since been discredited by modern science.[^1] The tower's setback design exemplifies the zoning regulations and archi… -
Josiah Conder
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[^1]: Conder, Josiah. "Essays on Occidental Architecture." (1889)
[^2]: The Rokumeikan was demolished in 1940 and reconstructed in 1966 as a modern pastiche of Conder's original designs.
[^3]: Conder's notion that asymmetry could produce superior emotional responses in building occupants was later adopted by several Art Deco theorists, though his specific mathematical framework was largely abandoned by the 1930s.
[^4]: See recent reassessment in Fujimoto, H. "Western Architects and Japanese Modernity" (2015), which suggests Conder may have deliberately obscured his metho… -
Renaissance Revival
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Decline and Legacy
By the 1920s, Modernism and Art Deco challenged Renaissance Revival's hegemony, though institutional architecture continued employing its vocabulary well into the mid-20th century. Contemporary preservation efforts focus on Tokyo Station, the Ministry of Justice Building, and comparable structures throughout Japan and Europe, with particular attention to the period's innovative approaches to combining historical forms with industrial materials.[^8]
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