While the other buildings of this industrial complex, built in three construction phases from 1911 to 1925, are completely adapted to their respective functions – the storage depot is a solid stone building. The production hall with its large glass windows offers ideal lighting for shoe-last production – the three-storey main building of the “Fagus” became an icon of modernity and the transparency it advocated. Its unsupported, fully glassed-in corners represented a departure from Industrial Classicism and mark the beginnings of modern skeleton construction. Gropius and Meyer, who had even the construction site regularly documented by one of the most prominent architectural photographers of the time, contributed to the canonisation of their debut work from the very beginning.