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29/03/2026

Hood · The Man Who Built the Center of the World
He was born 145 years ago today in , Island.
The son of a box manufacturer.

They called him the "brilliant bad boy of ."

He failed his entrance exam to the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Sat it again. Passed. Stayed five years.

He came back to America and spent a decade going nowhere.
Then at 41 — he won the Chicago Tribune Tower competition. His career exploded overnight.

10 years later — he was the lead architect of the most ambitious private building project in American history.
228 buildings demolished. 4,000 people relocated. 14 Art Deco towers rising from . Built during the worst economic depression the world had ever seen.

Over 65,000 people employed in the buildings alone during the 1930s and 40s.

Today — Center spans 22 acres. 17 million square feet of office space. 100 million visitors every holiday season. The largest single-asset commercial mortgage in US history — $3.5 billion — refinanced in 2024. Organiser

He never saw it finished. Raymond Hood died in 1934. Age 53. The project was still under construction.

Some builders plant trees whose shade they will never sit under.
Happy 145th, Raymond. The center of New York still stands. 🏙️
Hookfish · Celebrating Builders.

28/03/2026

Some buildings make you stop.
Not because they're famous.
Because they remind you —
that someone cared enough
to make something beautiful
in a world that would have accepted ordinary.
That's the highest form of ambition. 🏛️

Hookfish · Celebrating Builders.

27/03/2026

Today — 140 years ago —
a stonemason's son was born in Aachen, Germany.
His name was Ludwig Mies. He had no formal architecture training. He worked in his father's stone-cutting shop.

He later added his mother's name — van der Rohe — because he thought "Mies" — meaning "poor" in — would hold him back.
It didn't.
He built the Seagram Building. The . The House.

He coined the phrase the entire world now uses —
"Less is more."

Every glass tower in every skyline on earth — Mumbai, Dubai, Tokyo, New York — speaks the language he invented.

He didn't just design buildings.
He designed the vocabulary every architect since has used to speak about space, light and honesty.
Happy 140th, Mies. You gave the world its modern skyline. 🏛️

Hookfish · Celebrating Builders.

25/03/2026

He built less.
And charged more for it.
Mies van der Rohe — born a stonemason's son in Aachen, Germany.
No formal architecture degree.
No inherited privilege.

Just one philosophy — "Less is more."
In 1958 — he designed the Seagram Building on Park Avenue, New York.

Pulled the tower 30 metres back from the street.
Created an open plaza where there was none.
Sheathed it entirely in glass and bronze.

Every glass skyscraper you see today —
in
Mumbai, Dubai, Singapore, New York —
is a direct conversation with this building.
The plaza he created raised property values
on Park Avenue by 20% within 5 years.

Empty space.
Deliberately left.
More valuable than anything he could have built there.

The most powerful thing a builder can do —
is sometimes know what NOT to build. 🏛️
His birthday is this Friday — 140 years.
Which building do you think changed a neighbourhood's value most?
👇
Hookfish · Celebrating Builders. 🎣

23/03/2026

He failed his 10th grade exams.
Got rejected from architecture school.
One man believed in him anyway.

That decision changed the skyline of an entire city.
In 1991 — Lower Parel was a graveyard of abandoned textile mills. 54 cotton mills. Silent. Crumbling. Land no one wanted. Startup India

Hafeez Contractor looked at that land and saw something nobody else could.
Towers. Skyline. A new Mumbai.
He designed The Imperial — Mumbai's tallest twin towers at the time. Standing 254 metres over a neighbourhood that was literally built on factory rubble.
The buildings didn't just change the skyline.
They changed the economics of an entire city corridor.
Property prices in Lower Parel — rose 7x between 1991 and 2005. Startup India

₹2 lakh crore invested in the region in the years that followed.

Today — Lower Parel commands ₹52,000 per square foot.

From abandoned mills to Mumbai's most sought-after address. In one generation.
Great architecture doesn't just build buildings.
It builds the future price of everything around it. 🏙️
Which Mumbai neighbourhood do you think will be the next Lower Parel? 👇
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