Architecture

The Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy is offering virtual tours of twelve of Wright’s most recognizable sites so you can take a peek while social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic.

According to architects.

And you can't tell me otherwise.

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You can own architectural history.

“American style” architecture might first bring to mind Victorian, Ranch, Cape Cod or Prairie styles, but for city folk the brownstone stands out as perhaps the best representative of urban housing, especially in the Northeast. With the help of the Cosby family and Carrie Bradshaw, the brownstone has been cemented into the popular imagination of what city living looks like.

“We designed a space where passing neighbors, friends and children can easily stop by to chit chat under the entrance porch."

There’s a non-profit out there whose work is changing the way we tackle homelessness.

The modular units are being offered as a protective option, thanks to a design that helps them to resist wildfires.

You can employ this architectural strategy in your own home, no matter where you live.

If this was our place, you could find us on the porch swing more often than not.

Have you always wanted to live in a Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece? Maybe a better question is: who hasn’t? The iconic and artistic architect’s work have had people in awe when he was alive and at his career’s peak, but the adoration hasn’t stopped. If anything, his cultish following is becoming more pronounced over time. So if you’re in the Tri-State area and don’t balk at a $1.

The housing stock in America may be just as varied as the population here, particularly in older areas where people have been building for hundreds of years as waves of settlers brought influence from their native countries. Different styles and trends have prevailed over the years, and of course, no city or region is defined by just one style, but certain geographic areas definitely do have a common thread running through their local architecture and design.

In 1926, architect Lloyd Wright (yep, son of Frank) built this “neo Mayan” home in Los Feliz for friend and artist John Sowden. The property is currently for sale for $4.7 million.

A new Helen Mirren movie about a rich heiress who builds a strange mansion is based on real events. While it sounds like the real house it centers around was less about ghost stories than Hollywood makes it out to be, the place is still imposing. Winchester’s trailer shows Sarah Winchester, the widow of rifle magnate William Wirt Winchester, as she builds room after room onto her mansion, trapping inside each of them the ghosts of those who died as a result of her husband’s firearms.

No matter how large the structure, there’s something powerful about the architecture of a building that was once a church. And I think there’s nothing quite as lovely as saving an old building from being demolished by repurposing it as something else. And that’s just what these six structures have in common. Once houses of worship, they’re now homes. The home was originally an Anglican church.