 The aim was to project a sense of prosperity and solid financial credentials, which in turn would attract tenants willing to pay high rents.For the tenants, such surroundings were good for their own business credibility and affirmed their own social status as professionals.New York faced similar architectural challenges, but in comparison to Chicago, skyscraper architects worked less closely with engineers and other specialists, and instead held strong backgrounds in the Beaux Arts movement and perceived their role to be primarily artistic rather than a partnership with the mechanical arts.