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News and updates from the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation
When the Johnson Wax Administration Building was completed Life magazine called it the greatest innovation since the skyscraper: “a truer glimpse of the shape of things to come.” Like Wright’s Larkin Administration building of 1903, Wright desired to build an exhilarating work environment, even suggesting that it be moved out of the bleak industrial zone of Racine for which it was planned.
Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation | Feb 4, 2017
Wright’s only skyscraper, the Price Tower is also one of only two Wright structures to have a vertical orientation (the other being the Johnson Wax Research Tower).
Frank Lloyd Wright conceived of the Nakoma Clubhouse in 1923 at the request of the Nakoma Country Club in Madison, WI.
Midway Gardens was designed to be a European–style concert garden with space for year-round dining, drinking, and performances.
Having designed a gas station as part of his Broadacre City project in the 1930s, Wright approached Best Oil company owner, Ray Lindholm, a former client, with the idea of building a gas station in his hometown of Cloquet, MN.
A five-story red brick ode to productivity, Wright’s first major public work was widely heralded in Europe.
One of Wright’s last completed buildings, the Kalita Humphreys Theater is Wright’s only theater design that the he would see realized.
Wright, an avid collector of Japanese prints, had long been intrigued by Japanese culture and jumped at the opportunity to build something in the Orient.
When the City National Bank considered expanding into Mason City, James Blythe and J.E.E.
