Frank Lloyd Wright most famous projects

Frank Lloyd Wright spend the majority of his time designing houses rather than more complex architecture. However, his ideas become more espectacular with time.


Fallingwater (Edgar J. Kaufmann Sr. Residence), Bear Run, Pennsylvania, 1935–1937

William H. Winslow's house, (River Forest, Illinois) 1893-1894.

Isabel Roberts' house (River Forest, Illinois)

Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio, Oak Park, Illinois, 1889–1909

Ward Winfield Willits Residence, and Gardener’s Cottage and Stables, Highland Park, Illinois, 1901

Dana-Thomas House, Springfield, Illinois, 1902

Larkin Administration Building, Buffalo, New York, 1903 (demolished, 1950)

Darwin D. Martin House, Buffalo, New York, 1903–1905

Unity Temple, Oak Park, Illinois, 1904

Frederick C. Robie Residence, Chicago, Illinois, 1909

Taliesin I, Spring Green, Wisconsin, 1911

Imperial Hotel, Tokyo, Japan, 1923 (demolished, 1968; entrance hall reconstructed at Meiji Mura near Nagoya, Japan, 1976)

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York, 1956–1959

Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church, Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, 1956–1961

Gammage Auditorium, Tempe, Arizona, 1959–1964

Frank Lloyd Wright

Biography:
Frank Lloyd Wright was one of the most influent architects in the 20th Century. Borned in Oak Park, Illinois he started to feel a desire for construction. He studied ingeneering at Wisconsin University and left with his father's death. He went to Chicago where the architects Alder and Sullivan hired him as a draughtsman.

Style:
He is well known for being a specialist in organic architecture as we can see it in the fallingwater. He integrates nature in his projects and he is able not to lose functionality, but to even make it more efficient. 
He also rejects the idea, at his time, of making the rooms isolated from one and other. In order to give more amplitude and to aquire a futuristic style at those times, he connected each room. For these reasons and his revolutionary ideas, he was considered a "bad influence" to architecture by some architects, however, nowadays is considered one of the pioneers in modern architecture and even on the present day his projects seem quite up dated.

Willis Faber and Dumas Headquarters, Ipswich, UK by Norman Foster

Willis Faber and Dumas Headquarters is an office specialy designed to create a sense of comunity between the co-workers. It was one of the first projects of Norman Foster with the architectural practice Foster+partners. It has some interesting things unusual to see in a working space such as a garden-greenspace on the roof top, a swimming pool and a sophisticated restaurant. It is also a setting example towards the nowadays so demanded, ecofriendly architecture.

IBM Pilot Head Office, Cosham, Portsmouth, UK Norman Foster

This building is one of the first project from Foster Associates. Despite being a building made to cover some space problems, it was so well structured that nowadays it is still in use. The company IBM decided to invest in quality and gave one of his first important projects to Norman Foster, who is one of the most influent architects on the present day. The engineering part was done by Anthony Hunts associates and was build between 1970 to 1971 lasting less than a year of construction and living more than four decades.

It is located in Portsmouth, UK and it is surrounded by trees and grass. Its crystal windows create an effect that makes the building look opaque during the day and transparent in the night.

Norman Foster's most famous buildings

Norman Foster is nowadays considered as the most influent architect in the UK and practically in the whole world. His buildings cover all different styles but he always seeks for elegance and the highest levels of sophistication.



Famous buildings:

Willis Faber and Dumas Headquarters, Ipswich, UK

 Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK

Renault Distribution Centre, Swindon, United Kingdom

HSBC Main Building, Hong Kong

Terminal building at London Stansted Airport, UK

Torre de Collserola, Barcelona, Spain

Carré d'Art, Nîmes, France

Kings Norton Library, Cranfield University, UK

Lycée Albert Camus, Fréjus, France

Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska

Metro of Bilbao, Spain

Faculty of Law, Cambridge

The Clyde Auditorium, part of the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre in Glasgow, Scotland

National Sea Life Centre, Birmingham. UK

Commerzbank Tower, Frankfurt, Germany

Hong Kong International Airport, Chek Lap Kok, Hong Kong

Valencia Congress Centre, Valencia, Spain

Redevelopment of the Great Court of the British Museum, London, United Kingdom

Reichstag restoration, Berlin, Germany

Greater London Authority Building (London City Hall), London, United Kingdom

Millennium Bridge, London, United Kingdom

Center for Clinical Science Research, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA

Expo MRT Station, Singapore

Al Faisaliyah Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

La Poterie metro station, Rennes, France

J Sainsbury headquarters, Holborn Circus, London

Lionel Robbins Building renovation, British Library of Political and Economic Science, London School of Economics, London, United Kingdom

8 Canada Square (HSBC Group Head Office), London

Metropolitan Building in Warsaw

30 St Mary Axe, Swiss Re London headquarters, London, United Kingdom

The Sage Gateshead, Gateshead, UK

McLaren Technology Centre, Woking, United Kingdom

Tanaka Business School, Imperial College London

The Millau Viaduct, near Millau, France

Supreme Court Building, Singapore

Western Årsta Bridge, Stockholm

National Police Memorial, The Mall, London, United Kingdom

The Philological Library at the Free University of Berlin, Germany

Deutsche Bank Place, Sydney, Australia

Dresden Hauptbahnhof reconstruction, Dresden, Germany

Hearst Tower, New York City, United States

Palace of Peace and Reconciliation, Astana, Kazakhstan

Wembley Stadium, London, United Kingdom

The Willis Building, City of London, United Kingdom

Thomas Deacon Academy

Kogod Courtyard, Center for American Art and Portraiture at the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC

International Terminal, Beijing Capital International Airport, Beijing, China

John Spoor Broome Library, California State University Channel Islands.

New Elephant House, Copenhagen Zoo, Copenhagen, Denmark

Torre Caja Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Art of the Americas Wing at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, US