The Tribune Review Publishing Company Building was designed by architect Louis Kahn as the office and printing plant for the Tribune-Review newspaper in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, about 35 miles southeast of Pittsburgh.
Although not in his usual line of work, Kahn accepted the commission at the request of William Huff, an architect on his staff who was related to the newspaper's owner.
[4] August Komendant, Kahn's preferred collaborator and an expert in reinforced concrete, was the consulting structural engineer.
The piers, which are on the long sides of the building, project from the external walls to create a light-and-shadow effect.
As a result, the top parts of the T-shaped windows form a horizontal strip of glass just beneath the roof that extends the entire length of the building, interrupted only by the ends of the beams atop the piers.
On the shorter sides of the building are six windows that could be described as distorted Ts; each has the form a square with a stubby tail descending from it.
[3]: 146 Robert McCarter, author of Louis I. Kahn, which is the most extensive source of information about this building, provides this summary: "In the Tribune Review Building, which is rarely studied and almost never considered among his greatest works, Kahn achieved his most resolved expression to date of the relation between structure and light.