" For 10 points, name these objects once produced by the company that owns Norman Foster's Hearst Tower.
Camillo Sitte theorized that the prevalence of these objects made the public square obsolete. A 2007 building designed by Renzo Piano for the production of these objects is clad in a veil of ceramic tubes. Along with failure in the Palace of Nations competition, the International movement's other major setback of the 1920s was failure in the competition for a building to produce these objects. [*] Eliel Saarinen placed second with a design that eventually became Houston's Gulf Building, but that contest was won by J.M. Howells and Raymond Hood. A company that got its start producing these objects is headquartered in a building whose original base by Joseph Urban is now topped by a diagonally-gridded tower with corners that feature dramatic chamfers known as "birds' mouths." For 10 points, name these objects once produced by the company that owns Norman Foster's Hearst Tower.
Camillo Sitte theorized that the prevalence of these objects made the public square obsolete.
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