Christopher wrote:

>What if Frank Lloyd Wright had left the Guggenheim unpainted, but tinted the
>concrete in gradually changing shades all the way up, say, deep, deep rust
>through bright red through flaming orange through yellow?

Dan commented:

>You mean like a prairie sunset in the city?
>I like it.

The Wrigley Building, one of the iconic landmarks of Chicago,
has its terra-cotta facade glazed in six different shades,
from medium gray at the bottom to pale cream at the top,
the intent being that up in the sky it will always be bright.

I remembered this, but had trouble finding a reference --
many Chicago references don't mention it -- until I looked
in Sally Chappell's big book on Graham Anderson Probst & White
(GAPW).  The architect was Charles Beersma, designer at GAPW,
whose name doesn't get around much.

Not sure why FLW used concrete so much instead of terra cotta.
Maybe he didn't want to have his work compared too closely
with that of Louis Sullivan.


Martin C. Tangora	
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