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Design: 3 ‘Unbuilt’ Frank Lloyd Wright Projects Rendered By Designers
Frank Lloyd Wright is one of the most famous architects to ever live. He is known for the first American style of architecture called the Prairie style, the architectural masterpiece Falling Water, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and more. But despite his fame and the many followers he trained during his lifetime, more than half of his projects were never built. Out of 1,171 concepts, only 660 made it past the design phase. Angi and NeoMam Studios have selected three of these paper projects to bring to life.
“Wright’s plans are things of beauty, but it’s difficult to imagine what his unrealized sketches might have looked like in real life,’ says Angi. The new work helps make those sketches accessible to those not able to easily read or understand architectural drawings. The designers created a series of six images that feature one plan rendering and one perspective rendering of each project. The set describes not only what the buildings would have looked like, but also how they were organized.
Cover Preview: Barron’s Magazine – February 21
Saturday Morning: News And Stories From London
Georgina Godwin and the weekend’s top stories. Plus: Charles Hecker on the weekend’s international newspapers, Andrew Mueller on what we learned this week and Monocle editor-in-chief Andrew Tuck’s Saturday column.
Previews: New Humanist Magazine – Spring 2022
Mid Century Modern: 1965 Linnell House, Los Angeles
The Linnell Residence by Charles Wong, 1965. Ladera Heights is home to some unique modernists homes in Los Angeles and this Charles Wong home is no exception. Charles Wong immigrated from China in the 1930’s and graduated from USC’s School of Architecture in 1951 and was one of a handful of Asian American Modernist Architects that contributed to the Modernists landscape of the 60’s.
The owners Adrian and Jason (One who works with the Los Angeles Conservancy) lovingly restored the home for 7 months once moved in after their long 5 month escrow. The story on how they discovered the full set of plans for the home is something to be heard alongside what their vision was for the home when they purchased it. The home couldn’t have fallen into better hands as Adrian and Jason are the best examples of who should end up in these homes, someone who is going to Preserve, Restore and maintain the rich history that we have here in Los Angeles and it’s Architecture.
Morning News: Olympic Skating Scandal, Smart Headlights, Pandemic
Russian skater Kamila Valieva was still allowed to compete despite testing positive for a banned substance before the Olympic games. She was a heavy favorite for the gold – but ended up coming in fourth place yesterday.
What does this say about the integrity of the Olympic games — and what does it mean for the future of figure skating?
- Plus, smart headlights coming to U.S. cars could make American roads safer.
- And, how the pandemic is giving us economic lessons in real time.
Guests: The Washington Post’s figure skating analyst Robert Samuels and Axios’ Joann Muller and Emily Peck.
Cover Preview: National Geographic – March 2022
Previews: Down East Magazine – March 2022
Preview: Times Literary Supplement – February 18
In this week’s TLS
Julian Evans’s TLS cover review looks at writing inspired by another quarrel between people of whom we need to know much more – in Ukraine and its Donbas region
By Martin Ivens
Showcase
European politics|Book Review
Shards of language
Dispatches from the Donbas
By Julian Evans
European literature|Book Review
A fairy tale, but with strings attached
The crossover appeal of a world-famous puppet
British literature|Book Review
Inheritors of the cult
Why we’re still obsessed with Shakespeare
Biography|Book Review
On the way somewhere
New perspectives on a troubled celebrity chef
