Price Tower in Bartlesville, Oklahoma. The tallest structure designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
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Saturday, June 19, 2010
Monochrome Weekend - Price Tower, Frank Lloyd Wright
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The Price Tower was one of my favorites for a long time. I was a kid living in Price, UT when I first heard about it so I thought, in my know it all kid way, that it had some connection with the town.
Great photographs.
Is it the Babel Tour! Nice monochrome, I like the design!
Nice to see U again at my blog, have a nice wkd!
Serge
I visited the Price Tower in 1970. It is a very quirky little building. Elevators are triangular shaped and tucked into corners. There is little room for more than three people per car. The distance between floors is minimal, which is why the building is just over 200' tall. It sat vacant for many years because much of the furniture was custom built-in and it would have been too costly to renovate. I believe bringing the building into compliance with modern building codes, without destroying the integrity of the design would be nearly impossible. Thanks for sharing a great building.
Wright did design one other office tower, the Johnson Wax headquarters, in Racine, Wisconsin. It is a 14 story structure.
Great photos that also make urban poetry with style. I like it!
These days that wouldn't qualify as a really tall building! It's nicely decorated, and makes great patterns.
What an interesting building! It looks great in monochrome.
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