Construction of the long-planned Frank Lloyd Wright designed gas station in Buffalo, New York should begin this Spring, and be open to the public next year. It will be part of the Buffalo Transportation Pierce Arrow Museum. It was originally designed in 1927 as a Tydol Gas Station.
Architects Patrick Mahoney of Buffalo and Anthony Puttnam, […]
Here is an article from The Buffalo News on the Boathouse, opening this weekend in Buffalo.
He [Wright] first envisioned a building of stucco and wood resting on a stone foundation, beside waters that never froze over, for year-round use by University of Wisconsin oarsmen. But the university declined to pay for the project, and it […]
The Frank Lloyd Wright Boathouse opens today in Buffalo. Designed, but never built, for the University of Wisconsin Boat Club it will now be the home of the West Side Rowing Club.
The website for the building hasn’t been updated, but it does have some nice photos of the nearly-completed building.
but that day isn’t today.
Here is a a set of 107 photos of the Massaro house on Flicker . Many are of the interior (and a few of the bing honkin’ boulder) and all of them are nice.
New York magazine has an article on the house too. While the article treads familiar ground (if you’ve […]
I found a list of links to a series of news articles about the Massaro House stretching back to 2001, when the island was being surveyed before the start of construction and through to last month, when the house was finally ready for occupancy.
April, 2000: Right place for Wright house?
Joe Massaro: “This is a […]
… don’t let Ken Johnson do it. So in that spirit, here is my review of “Frank Lloyd Wright and the House Beautiful” now at The Portland Museum of Art, in Maine All the usual caveats apply: I’m not an art historian, critic or even a moderately knowledgeable guy. So take my words with a multitude […]
I’m not someone who bristles every time Frank Lloyd Wright is criticized. Many people don’t care for Wright, and that is understandable; Wright had a his full ration of character flaws, and his specific ideas about home design didn’t appeal to everyone. You don’t like Wright; I think Dave Eggers sucks — that’s art. There […]
It’s been months since I’ve seen any news on the Massaro House (a newly-built house based on drawings by Frank Lloyd Wright) in Mahopac, New York. According to BuisnessWeek the house was completed July 12 — eight years after Joe Massaro bought the island and Wright’s drawing for the house. The article briefly, but nicely, […]
A few days ago, I pointed to an article on the ice-block cooling system used in the Met Life building in Manhattan. Earlier this week, NPR’s All Things Considered interviewed the head of Critical Engineering Systems for Credit Suisse about the system. ATC also missed the Frank Lloyd Wright connection (introducing the interview, Robert Siegel […]
I’ve always thought the the “About.com”: sites are banal and usually trite. Why The New York Times pays these people to write is one of the great mysteries of the early 21st Century.
“Did Frank Lloyd Wright Practice Feng Shui? NO!” (It’s more fun if you read the first part of the title with a breathless […]