Article: AZ DOT Plans FLW Influences on Stretch of Freeway

[DavidC]

ADOT Plans Frank Lloyd Wright Influences on South Mountain Freeway


David

[Roderick Grant]

Oh, the horizontal lines. At first I thought it was eliminating the traffic lanes.

[DRN]

Recognition is nice, but this is so thin as to be unrecognizable.
Did Wright ever use a motif of mating 'L's? The horizontal lines are more reminiscent of 1930's moderne form liners used on the Pennsylvania Turnpike's original concrete overpasses.

I suppose they could have scaled up the ubiquitous Heritage Henredon edge bead for the overpass parapet forms.

[Rood]

Recognition is nice, but this is so thin as to be unrecognizable.
Did Wright ever use a motif of mating 'L's? The horizontal lines are more reminiscent of 1930's moderne form liners used on the Pennsylvania Turnpike's original concrete overpasses. I suppose they could have scaled up the ubiquitous Heritage Henredon edge bead for the overpass parapet forms.

That mating "L" combination is clumsy, to say the least. However, it might be said that Mr. Wright used a semblance of the idea at Florida Southern ... at any rate in a horizontal fashion ... on the concrete blocks.