Wright Chat

Greetings All : It is being reported that the David Wright house just sold, at $7.2 million. No other information available about the buyers. We pray they have good intentions.

Great news for a Monday morning ! Buyers include Hu Bing and Wenchin Shi, principals H & S International, architectural firm along with Jim Benson - Benson Botsford LLC. Hu and Wenchin were apprentices at the now dissolved Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture and are also directly involved in the resurgence of the school, independent from the FLWFDN. The David Wright House and it's long perilous journey appears to now be in safe hands.

Hallelujah ! A Festivus miracle . . .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYi-99klXAs

(How much did the last owner pay for the property ?)

S

It is a good thing that they intend to add the copper roof. If I recall, the original compromise (for the sake of cost) was aluminum? Even though it was never copper, that desire by Papa should be added. Preservation of the idea.
They still have to rebuild the straight wall that was removed alongside the entrance driveway.

https://www.architectmagazine.com/desig ... taliesin_o

https://www.flickr.com/photos/trackus/2 ... otostream/

https://www.archdaily.com/293422/david- ... tion-image

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNqKEo7XqJY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_8kFbZf00I


S

At 7:15 in the above-linked video we see a horizontal white rod overhead in the kitchen. If this is not an electrical connection, perhaps it's a tie rod of some sort ?

At 9:20 we get a good look at a structural feat: the cylindrical or conical wall levitating above the fireplace. How would that have been achieved ?

S

@ 7:15, the tour guide explains that the white rod is an electrical chase to provide for the ceiling fixture.

m.perrino wrote: ↑Mon Aug 17, 2020 8:34 am Great news for a Monday morning ! Buyers include Hu Bing and Wenchin Shi, principals H & S International, architectural firm along with Jim Benson - Benson Botsford LLC.

H & S International
http://www.handsinternational.com/about.asp

Benson Botsford LLC
https://incfact.com/company/bensonbotsf ... states-il/

Great news!
Hopefully the restoration work of the house will resume, including the replacement of the "anchoring" driveway wall, and a more environmentally sustainable (less irrigation dependent) landscaping plan will be implemented.

Please, get rid of the grass and the trees.
Back to the original.

What a Recent Sale Means for a Frank Lloyd Wright-Designed House in Phoenix


David

(can't see the whole article here, but the shortened version tells what has happened)

Acre lot in Phoenix's Arcadia neighborhood sells for record-breaking $4.75M


David

In the confusion of this article, it sounds like they may have sold the piece of property that has the Guesthouse on it? Anyone know anything further/more accurate???

Acre lot in Phoenix's Arcadia neighborhood sells for record-breaking $4.75M


David

The article notes the lot in question previously was the site of a house by Lloyd Wright for David's son. The lot that had the house by Lloyd was adjacent to the David Wright lot, but extended south and fronted on E. Exeter Blvd. The David Wright house and its guest house to its north front on N. Rubicon Ave. (4505 N. Rubicon Ave Phoenix, AZ).

A look on GoogleEarth at the above address shows the block is quite the hotbed of tear down and McMansion erections.
To scroll through the years of GoogleEarth images for that block is a gut wrenching display of a waste of material resources by the rich. The house to the immediate north of the David Wright site was torn down and replaced in 2007, then that replacement house itself was torn down late 2015 presumably by Zach Rawlings. The Lloyd Wright designed house to the south of David Wright was insensitively expanded in 2001 (large addition almost tripling size), then torn down and replaced with a larger house in 2012, and the replacement house was demolished in 2015 by Zach...NOT EVEN A FULL 3 YEARS after its completion!

It would appear from the article's photo that the green, green grass of wasted water is being allowed to brown out at the David Wright site. Here's hoping some orange trees find a grid to grow on.