Urban Shocker
Doyenne
But it was an expression of "steel", if that makes sense.
Expressing structural steel with steel cladding - rather than bronze - would have been a more honest reflection of material use. Or stopping - after the concrete layer that encased the steel had been applied - and not cladding it with metal at all. Producing a few concrete towers might have snapped Mies out of the rather elegant rut he'd gotten himself into.
I've always been rather fond of that funky brick-clad war memorial he did in the '20s:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...erlin-Friedrichsfelde,_Revolutionsdenkmal.jpg