Starting in the late 1920s, Stuttgart already had a modern 61-meter-high tower as a landmark. At that time, people were still genuinely enthusiastic about technology. The newspaper Stuttgarter Tagblatt ran a headline for its opening that read “Stuttgart empor!” (i.e. “Stuttgart Rises!”) And contemporary artists did not march against this modern building; instead, they made it the subject of their work—as did Max Ackermann, for example, in 1928 who created a drypoint etching. So which tower am I talking about? And which construction method, one that shaped both the aesthetics and the engineering of the structure, was used here for the first time anywhere in the world? Here’s a little hint: ChatGPT knows the answer.

🎄🔬🎨 Advent calendar 2025—day 14: Rising towers

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From Le Corbusier’s Ronchamp chapel to Stuttgart’s pioneering TV tower and an earlier 1920s landmark: can you guess which structure changed tower design worldwide?

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