For
many years, I wanted to visit Bartlesville, Oklahoma to see the Price Tower,
the Frank Lloyd Wright high rise. The building has one stairway (outside), a
hidden entrance, and tiny elevators.
When we think of Wright, we think of low horizon-hugging buildings, although Wright proposed The Illinois, a mile-high building in Downtown Chicago.
Compare The Illinois to
a rendering of the Chicago Spire, which would have been about one-half mile
high. I wish the Chicago Spire had been built. Interestingly, the
site of the Chicago Spire is adjacent to the site of Jean Baptiste duSable's
cabin.
