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A careful reading of the above drawing will reveal that Mr Wright intended for the stone to be "cream colored" rather than stark white---predictably. Today's tastes apparently dictated a different choice. The result is certainly crisp and handsome, nevertheless.
Wright clearly wanted the stones to be set flat, i.e. completely horizontal in contrast to the slope of the site. As executed, the stone tops are sloped, almost as a compromise between the slope of the hill and 0 deg. Very unfortunate.
My 56 year old eyes and cheap drugstore reading glasses are reading the slabs in the photo as level.
Possibly a lens distorting the image...or my retina?
I would say this photo https://www.blueskymausoleum.com/image/ ... y_0003.jpg shows that John is right. I can see Roderick's point about how the slabs should be pitched---but one could argue as well that the water, rather than draining into the gutter between slabs, might better be shed to the sides ? Of course either choice is formally troubling ...
I sometimes have to straighten photos before posting them; tipsy images displease me. In this case I rotated the photo 1 degree clockwise; the slabs were even more sloping before I did that. But the visual objection was the leading edge of the pylon or pier, which was out of plumb. I guess I was surprised that I could read a one-degree error . . .
