Showing posts with label Frank Lloyd Wright. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Frank Lloyd Wright. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

California Connection


Just for fun, a few images of classic Los Angeles architecture taken on a recent trip to California.

Kings Road Residence, RM Schindler 1922

Sturges Residence, FLW 1939

Mackey Apartments, RM Schindler 1939

Yew Residence, Richard Neutra 1957

VDL Research House, Richard Neutra 1963

Stahl Residence (Case Study #22), Pierre Koenig 1960

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Patkau + Wright



Patkau Architects has won an international competition to design six cottages at Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater in Pennsylvania. The cottages will serve as lodging and provide additional room for educational programming.

In addition to Patkau, two other Canadian firms were among six chosen by a preliminary selection committee, including Saucier + Perotte and MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects.

Image: Western Pennsylvania Conservancy

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Woyat-Bowie Building

This Medical-Dental building was designed by Fred Thornton Hollingsworth in 1966. It has a small, economical layout with four office spaces, one of which was originally used by the Hollingsworth & Barry Downs partnership (1964-1967).
The most striking feature- apart from the building being relatively intact and unscathed by renovations- is the raised roof that floats above the central waiting area, connected to the structure below by slender posts and rows of clerestory windows.
Offices are organized in two blocks on either side of the building and face onto inner courtyards. Materially, the Woyat-Bowie is classic Hollingsworth: natural cedar, white stucco and attention to detail. Both Wright and the Japanese tradition are apparent in the spatial relationships, humanist scale and use of light.

Wednesday, October 29, 2008