 These projects include the prize-winning design of the Tribune Tower in Chicago and the Daily News Building in New York City.Howells also designed the Beekman (Panhellenic) Tower in New York and the plan for the University of Brussels in Belgium in 1922 at the request of U.S. Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover.Howells's institutional works include the Engineering Quadrangle at Pratt Institute, built in phases from 1909 to 1928; Memorial Hall at Pratt Institute in 1927; and Willoughby Hall at Pratt Institute in 1957.