Frank Lloyd Wright & The Mile High Skyscraper | Short Documentary | All Things Architecture Series
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- In 1956, Frank Lloyd Wright made an announcement--an announcement to design a building that was to be his crowning achievement. An outlandish building that, if built, would make him the most daring architect in the world. A building that would truly reach for the sky. However, it was not meant to be.
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This is so impressive skyscraper. One of my favorite skyscrapers :)
OMG S.H. Lee
It's not a skyscraper. It's only a drawing.
@@colt4667 Yes. Drawings of skyscraper :)
I have a house on a lake in Wisconsin called Delavan, FLW built a couple of houses on the other side of the lake I can immediately identify when boating by it's straight horizontal lines, can't miss it, the man was a genius!
If Saudi Arabia wants to waste around a trillion Thalers on a ugly huge mirrored wall in the desert. Then I don’t see why here in America we can’t spend around $50 billion constructing an upgraded version of the Illinois!
FACTSSSS just imagine if they really went through with this construction it would have looked at beautiful.
FLW was always far ahead of his contemporaries in design, and his vision for the mile high building would insure that he remained that way, for decades after his death.
And it actually has!
He certainly was ahead of his time. Even his early buildings look innovative today. His Mile-High Tower shows both his optimism for the possibilities of the future of architecture, and his unapologetic showmanship that continue to intrigued people all these years later.
When I was a student at The Andrew School I did my term paper for Art Class on Frank Loyd Wright. I included the fact that Wright‘s mother believed in prenatal instinct. His mother would take a record player and sit under the trees in the woods and she would read and draw knowing that her unborn child would be influenced by their environment. Well my Art teacher told me that that was totally preposterous. I just let it go because I knew it was plausible.
Later in life I exposed my unborn child to the Arts and many different types of music from Opera to Country Music. While I was going into labor I was listening throughout the night to the old Blues from very old recordings that hissed on their 98 disks. The old black men wailed away in their Cairo story telling. As an infant and a toddler I would take my son in a stroller to the Art Museum and Science Center. As he grew up learned to appreciate Opera, Country, Old Blues, Mannheim Steamroller, Classic Rock, and much more. My son has grown up into a very well-rounded individual. He appreciates Architecture and has a very inquisitive mind for history and the politics of history, law and medicine.
I knew that Mrs. Wright knew the secret of the how the magic of ones environmental surrounding influence one’s life. Frank Loyd Wright’s houses blend in with the forests where they are built. As a young teenager my son saw the wonders of a stream flowing beneath a Living Room floor at the cantilevered magical Falling Waters by Frank Lloyd Wright. Thank you Frank Loyd Wright for all of your wonderful and magnificent designs.
Lou Penfield was a lifelong friend of my mother’s and I later became friends with Lou Penfield who was a lifelong friend of Frank Loyd Wright’s. Lou lived in one of the homes that he and Frank Loyd Wright designed together. Lou also had plans sent to him by Frank Loyd Wright for another home for Lou Penfield to build in the future. Unfortunately he received the plans in the mail on the day that Frank Loyd Wright passed away. Lou and I had so much fun walking around his property in the woods, picking up sticks and telling each other stories that made us laugh out loud. As we strolled and chatted we always gazed back at the Home that he and Frank Lloyd Wright designed together. May both of you rest in peace and enjoy the greatest architecture in the sky. 😇😎
I love how new skyscrapers look so similar to this idea
FLW always stressed form over function and I wouldn't be surprised if The Illinois, though stunning to look at (if not a bit ugly, in the opinion of some) came loaded with unforseen problems. Some I envision: People getting headaches and sick from the altitude changes, unexpected physics with wind and weather with a mile high building.... political mayhem of having all the State offices in Chicago when the capitol is in Springfield..... traffic and parking problems, discomfort, griping, supply & delivery, etc etc. In other words, it would have been in the papers all over the world for years
You’re right, the entire project would be completely impractical if not impossible. Wright didn’t even have plans to put in fire sprinkler systems, because he viewed that the building would never need them. It's fair to say that there would be little desire for anybody other than Wright himself to build such a building.
If only I were a movie producer, I'd love to make a film.... called "Mile High", maybe.... covering someone's attempt to follow FLW's blueprints and build this giant tower in Chicago from a 1st person view. Throw in all the unexpected: such as a global warming hurricane during construction..... some great but terrifying CGI effects and views. And perhaps, at the end: the titanic building going up in flames, tottering then collapsing majestically... because it never had sprinklers in the plans.
It would be a blockbuster hit for sure! haha
@@c.rutherford I would watch that. It would be interesting to see how the art directors would dress up the building since so much of the plan was left a mystery. The story gives me a "Towering Inferno" or The Rock's "Skyscraper" vibe.
Let's build it!
I wonder how he would've constructed this bold idea?
With builders probably. Don’t hold me to that though
@@ojcksn no shit Sherlock. I was wondering about the material and how he would maintain structural integrity up to that height. You know, logical questions anyone with more than two brain cells would Wonder.
@@beammeier4997 uh oh someone is angry who hurt you, my friend
@@ojcksn Ahhhh HAAA HAAA HAAA!!! I LOVE your "brilliant" observation a month late! 😅 Little slow on the uptake huh? Does your frontal lobe even function anymore? How's that MENSA membership coming? LOL
@@beammeier4997 you know for someone who supposedly had more than two brain cells you really are shit at insulting me. Keep trying I’m sure you’ll think of something eventually
That's amazing why don't we have that
"Not meant to be" ?come on we have the capabilities ,the money... Well that's up for question.😂 But in serious note we are definitely capable of building this Tower. And honestly I really wish they did.
Frank: So i designed a skyscraper
"Oh great, so how high would it be?"
Frank: yes
FLW: "I don't believe in vertical buildings"
Also FLW: "Let me present to the world.... my 1 mile high skyscraper...."
It's funny how Wright spent his entire career fighting against skyscrapers, and then appears to embrace them full-heartedly. He was filled with so many contradictions.
@@AllThingsArchitecture He was really a hypocrite. I think he had some good works though, even if he’s pretty overrated.
He practically invented modern architecture , how’s he overrated@@SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand
@@joshcorley9607 Because modern architecture is kind of overrated itself.
This whole idea was just a pipe dream. Atomic elevators no less. FLW didn't have the vaguest idea.
What the Hell are atomic elevators?
I wonder if some of his ideals came into play when designing the twin towers in the early 60’s ??? I bet he was thought of several times !!!!
It would be interesting to know if the World Trade Center's architect Minoru Yamasaki had researched Wright's vision. However, WTC's building system was vastly different from Wright's idea. Where Wright's skyscraper would use a strong central core to hold up to the tower, Yamasaki decided to use the exterior walls to support the building.
I can teach you how-
Flw 😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊
Same :)
How would a sewer system even work ?
Shit rolls downhill
“Burj Khalifa” in the 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates in Dubai towers 2,717 feet tall. Making it the tallest building in the world but a new one is under construction 🚧 in Jeddah. The “Jeddah Tower”🏗 will reach 3,281 feet tall. A mile is 5280 feet. And the Powers That Be will keep on soaring up to the heavens. 😎🚧😇
it’s not gonna happen
Wonder where they got those ideas from👆