[Covenantor]

"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

[Cicero]

Don’t let Jerry Brown see this.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Made out of teakwood, plate glass, and field stone?
 

[Behind the Blue Wall]

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.

[Nifster]

FLW had some of the most interesting designs

[PAR35]

Given the poor quality engineering that came out of his shop, I doubt that the bridge would hold up very long. Wright was an artist, but his projects don’t have a great batting average.

[Kozak]

Frank Lloyd Wright was a “ little known architect”?

[Sam_Damon]

Welp, here’s some more background in an interactive graphic.

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http://info.aia.org/aiarchitect/2011/0923/fallingwater_interactive/fallingwater_interactive.html

[ADemocratNoMore]

Pinging mairdie

Very interesting post. I think you might be interested in it.