The cone is not entirely hollow. There seem to be trusses supporting the cone, and possibly a ceiling with a perimeter following the cone at a lower pitch and a flat circle in the middle about half way up the cone. But the drawing isn't finished enough to know for sure.
Leaving the arcade open would not be an option in any sort of malignant effort. This scheme, if built, will be for year-around use in order to amortize the cost, whereas the boat house would have stood unused during the winter. It is just a bad idea all around.
FLW Unbuilt Designs for Madison
By way of context, 1893, the date of these Mendota Boathouse projects, is the year that the arcaded campus of Stanford University, by Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge, was opened.
https://www.usnews.com/img/college-photo_385.jpg
For my money, the Roman arch(es) resting on columns, the mono-material construction, and the pitched roofs speak to Wright's wooden monument more than do Sullivan's version of those forms . . . ?
SDR
https://www.usnews.com/img/college-photo_385.jpg
For my money, the Roman arch(es) resting on columns, the mono-material construction, and the pitched roofs speak to Wright's wooden monument more than do Sullivan's version of those forms . . . ?
SDR
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Those Stanford arches are great.
Much is owed to HH Richardson, in the 1870's & 80's:
https://www.oakesameshall.org/oakes-ame ... omanesque/
Conical roof:
http://openbuildings.com/buildings/emma ... file-25029
... and as an aside, as Richardonian arches go, they don't get much bolder than this one:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Egv7Y8CJ0-A/U ... eLodge.jpg
Much is owed to HH Richardson, in the 1870's & 80's:
https://www.oakesameshall.org/oakes-ame ... omanesque/
Conical roof:
http://openbuildings.com/buildings/emma ... file-25029
... and as an aside, as Richardonian arches go, they don't get much bolder than this one:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Egv7Y8CJ0-A/U ... eLodge.jpg
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Furness is fascinating, and not discussed enough. I'd like to know more about his work, never having seen any in person. Somewhere on a shelf I have a Furness book...
I heard an anecdote from a history professor when I was a student that Furness (a fiery redhead) would occasionally shoot a pistol from one end of his studio to the opposite wall to blow off a little steam and relieve stress. His draughtsmen learned to duck.
Maybe we should explore Furness a little more ....
http://furnesque.tumblr.com/tagged/Frank-Furness
I heard an anecdote from a history professor when I was a student that Furness (a fiery redhead) would occasionally shoot a pistol from one end of his studio to the opposite wall to blow off a little steam and relieve stress. His draughtsmen learned to duck.
Maybe we should explore Furness a little more ....
http://furnesque.tumblr.com/tagged/Frank-Furness
The link James noted has some good examples, I also like Furness' "hard core" work that those of "good taste" could not allow to survive the early to mid 20th century:
http://frankfurness.org/wp-content/uplo ... ublic3.jpg
http://frankfurness.org/wp-content/uplo ... ublic3.jpg
https://i2.wp.com/hspvsketchbook.files. ... op=1&ssl=1
(the church survives but the corner tower was removed)
Some of the few survivors:
The 1876 gatehouse at the Philly Zoo that I liked when I was a little kid:
http://www.theconstitutional.com/sites/ ... ne2010.jpg
The one I wrote letters and signed petitions about when I was in high school (Drexel University bought and restored it as their alumni center):
http://www.phillyliving.com/images/blog ... et1963.jpg
https://image.slidesharecdn.com/fcsarch ... 1201003616
http://frankfurness.org/wp-content/uplo ... ublic3.jpg
http://frankfurness.org/wp-content/uplo ... ublic3.jpg
https://i2.wp.com/hspvsketchbook.files. ... op=1&ssl=1
(the church survives but the corner tower was removed)
Some of the few survivors:
The 1876 gatehouse at the Philly Zoo that I liked when I was a little kid:
http://www.theconstitutional.com/sites/ ... ne2010.jpg
The one I wrote letters and signed petitions about when I was in high school (Drexel University bought and restored it as their alumni center):
http://www.phillyliving.com/images/blog ... et1963.jpg
https://image.slidesharecdn.com/fcsarch ... 1201003616
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Mmmm ... those are witty and brawny, masterpieces all.
Those were the days... when buildings could be so substantial, look and be so heavy and solid. Looking plausibly permanent.
Years ago I visited the house Victor Horta designed for himself in Brussels (an Art Nouveau thing). Framed on the wall was an elevation drawing at a scale large enough for every piece of curvy limestone on its façade to be identified by number where, presumably, they were drawn even larger elsewhere and dimensioned in order to know how to fabricate them. No two pieces of stone appeared to be the same shape.
Wouldn't it be great to see the Furness's construction drawings for that wonderful bank façade? What a jewel.
Those were the days... when buildings could be so substantial, look and be so heavy and solid. Looking plausibly permanent.
Years ago I visited the house Victor Horta designed for himself in Brussels (an Art Nouveau thing). Framed on the wall was an elevation drawing at a scale large enough for every piece of curvy limestone on its façade to be identified by number where, presumably, they were drawn even larger elsewhere and dimensioned in order to know how to fabricate them. No two pieces of stone appeared to be the same shape.
Wouldn't it be great to see the Furness's construction drawings for that wonderful bank façade? What a jewel.
Yes -- the bank front shown in half a dozen images, both drawings and photos ? Oh, to work in the days of "real material." Now we deal in skins, mostly.
What forms are natural to skins ? For that matter, were Horta's or Furness's pieces of stone "natural," beyond being capable of manufacture from the raw material ? Is the making and assembling of a computer-drawn and CNC-fabricated skin more of a miracle than is the hand-drawing, hewing, dressing and laying of blocks of stone ?
SDR
What forms are natural to skins ? For that matter, were Horta's or Furness's pieces of stone "natural," beyond being capable of manufacture from the raw material ? Is the making and assembling of a computer-drawn and CNC-fabricated skin more of a miracle than is the hand-drawing, hewing, dressing and laying of blocks of stone ?
SDR
I'm afraid Wright did design those towers, Tom.Tom wrote:Never knew that Monona Terrace had towers planned for it.
They don't look Wright to me. The same guy that did the tower at JWax
and the one in Bartlesville did not do those towers.
I have a Minneapolis Sunday Tribune newspaper article (with photo) from the era, dated 13 February 1955,, showing the model as first displayed in Madison ... "last week".
The headline reads:
Frank Lloyd Wright Wows Madison With Lakeshore Auditorium Plans
The text reads in part: The roofs, at street level, are flower gardens, but the gardens can be sacrified, Wright says, to make room for a couple of silo-like skyscrapers, 14-24 stories high "If you wish," usable as hotels, offices, shops or restaurants.
"It's organic architecture, with which I've always been identified," he said. "It's almost free of ornamentation or other monkeydoodle business. There's no waste motion.
"And when they start telling you how expensive this is going to be, just smile ... because it isn't so. This is metal, steel, and glass construction ... standardized and very simple."