Looks like a medical/dental office building...
Posted on 02/27/2025 3:42:08 PM PST by mairdie
One of the largest private homes built by the legendary architect Frank Lloyd Wright is on the market in Tulsa, Oklahoma — and it just got a major price cut.
Dubbed “Westhope,” the residence is one of just five homes Wright built with unique, geometric blocks stacked in vertical columns. No fewer than 5,200 panes of glass cover almost half of the exterior, and large skylights let in even more Sooner sunshine. It can be yours for $3.5 million — a 56% drop from its initial asking price in 2023, Mansion Global reported.
At 10,400 square feet, Westhope is one of Wright’s largest private family builds. In addition to five bedrooms and 4.5 baths, buyers get a pool and a guesthouse. ...
In another [anecdote] instance, Jones’s wife was dashing around the living room during a torrential downpour, using pots and pans to catch the various leaks.
“Well,” Mrs. Lloyd Jones [Wright's cousin's wife] reportedly said, “This is what we get for leaving a work of art out in the rain.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Wright might have been a great artist, but he was a lousy architect - leaky roofs and lousy structural engineering are his hallmark.
FWIW, ancient Chinese believed the same. Also, don't have mirrors, don't have sharp edges in your bedroom. It harms your "qi,"
In Beijin's Forbidden City, in spite of the huge size and ornamentation of the whole imperial complex, the Emperor slept in a room <10 sq.meters.
I wonder if Wright picked up that notion in Japan?
I grew up in a HughNewell Jacobsen designed home and my current home is a blend of both FLW andHKJ. With a little Alexander Calder art thrown it. Living in art is magnificent.
This is what happens when you only attend one year of college - in structural engineering.
So very much enjoying the stories and the varying points of view.
amazingly beautiful buildings, but the flat roofs tend to leak like sieves, and many seem so stark, that it seems difficult to figure out how one could make cozy, livable homes out of some of them, esp. if one keeps the FLW-designed angular furniture that was included in many of them ...
I wouldn’t want to live in a FLW house. I’d rather hire an architect and an engineer who understand what he was driving at and have them build me a home on those principles.
When I first saw that the head of the re-design was a woman, I thought "This is going to look nice, but it's not going to be nice to use." And that's just like FLW stuff... it looks innovative, but it's cumbersome at best.
“The one thing I agree with Franklin Lloyd Wright is that bedrooms should be small, since they are relatively single purpose rooms. Maximum the rest of the house, but minimize the bedroom.”
i think bedroom size should depend upon the size of ones harem ...
Definitely not my idea of good looking architecture. The modern stuff is unimaginative. Soviet-esque, if you will. Nothing “organic” about most of it, not that there’s anything wrong with looking like it grew out of the scenery...but it usually doesn’t.
As for “form follows function,” that’s fine for aircraft and ships, but in buildings, the nearer you get to following function, the more you get a box.
So the artsy set can have him.
As for the leaks...maybe he should have used gutters and downspouts after all.
And then you have roof leaks. Not sure why he could not figure out the roof thing. My dad as an architect worked with him for a time. He never put a grade on his roofs, always had leaks. I stopped taking repair/re-roof requests from his projects. Been a roofer for 30 years, nothing that I miss about Wrights projects. That would be... the other side of the story.
The other question is, how in the name of Hades did he get famous? He sucked!
“His houses look cold and uncomfortable.”
Operating rooms look more cozy. Give me a 3,000 sq.ft. New England saltbox.
There’s a neighborhood near us with a few Lloyd Wright designed homes. For the most part, even though the designs are interesting, they’ve been allowed to deteriorate and the whole neighborhood is pretty shabby. Not at all like those built into, and protruding from, giant boulder homes in Sedona.
Aaarrrrrrghh!! NO!! If it is small, it is a nook, not a bedroom. If a room is 12x12 or so, turn it into a closet or a small bathroom. Or take out a wall and turn it into a small upstairs porch. Don't try to sleep in it -- you could get a cramp!
Bedrooms should be huge. That way a huge bed doesn't overwhelm it, and you wake up feeling like royalty.
LOL, that was my first thought too: "Ick! Unitarians?"
Interesting concept of those who think he was a genius. He was an idiot savant, my dad worked with him for a time. The Idiot part was pretty evident even in the community. Weird how the media picks it’s hero’s. So if we back up on that thought, who publicized him and made a crap architect a family name. Where did he get his money from? These are not cheap builds. They are ugly and always leak.
US A I D? early days?
The best thing Wright ever did was a hotel in Japan that managed to survive the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923. Even that looked like government work, but at least it withstood the forces of nature.
It’s not the cost of the house that will wipe you out financially! It’s the maintenance!
What kind of heating and cooling did it have?
Looks like a medical/dental office building...
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