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"School children in 1953 look at Frank Lloyd Wright’s “Butterfly Bridge” model, with two spans running side by side." Photo via SF Public Library
Posted on 12/10/2017 1:01:51 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
"School children in 1953 look at Frank Lloyd Wright’s “Butterfly Bridge” model, with two spans running side by side." Photo via SF Public Library
Looks like the bridge from Die Hard
Don’t let Jerry Brown see this.
Wow
A southern crossing between San Francisco and the East Bay is long overdue. For the cost of the earthquake retrofit of the Bay Bridge it could’ve been done, saving billions of hours of congestion. Nothing that rational can happen anymore in California unfortunately.
lol!
You’re right, it is.
Enter Frank Lloyd Wright, a little-known architect...who was already 66 years old or turned 66, in 1933 -- so, contrary to what the article sez, he wasn't little known and suddenly got discovered by SF. It must have been scrawled by a typical journalist of our time. It's particularly ironic, considering that one of his, to that time, internationally heralded work had been in Japan, and badly damaged by an earthquake in 1923.
LOL!
It’s the one reason why I have a love-hate view on Wright.
Incredible designs, but seriously some of his material usage (overuse) is stifling.
It’s beautiful.
Frank Lloyd Wright had no grasp of structural loads. It was a good thing his design wasn’t built.
FLW had some of the most interesting designs
Agreed.
I never understood the phrase that a man was ahead of his time until I visited the Meyer May house in Grand Rapids. Fell in love with the style then. I have owned a prairie style duplex for 30 years. Didn’t understand what it was and why it was special for many years. I don’t know who built it in 1905.
That’s what the engineer is for.
Die Hard contains two nods to the famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright: (1) The Nakatomi offices are designed to look like Wright’s Falling Water, and (2) the scale model of a bridge that Hans admires in front of Takagi is a scale model of a design for a bridge over the San Francisco Bay. (Source)
https://www.shmoop.com/die-hard/trivia.html
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True. He was an architect and not an engineer. I've heard some of his designs could only now be actually constructed with materials or systems that would not have been available in the 1950's. His design for a mile-high skyscraper, "The Illinois", has always been one of my favorites of his unbuilt designs.
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