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"After four years of construction, which involved waiting for the lake to freeze each winter before materials could be hauled across the ice, the house was finally completed in 2007. But it was not to everyone's delight. Fifty-three years after his death, Wright's work is as closely protected by his fans as ever. '[Massaro] says his construction is within two inches of Wright's design,' expert William Allin Storrer told Bloomberg. 'Nuts to that! You design it exactly according to plan or you don't call it a Frank Lloyd Wright house.' Criticism has focused on a number of details, including the interpretation of Wright's trademark 'desert masonry' – a technique that incorporated found chunks of rock into load-bearing walls. While Wright's walls were densely packed with stones, and rarely protruded from the profile of the wall plane, here great boulders jut out of the rendered walls like cherries in a cartoon fruitcake – due to the need for a layer of insulation behind, claims Massaro. Wright experts have also tutted at the use of domed skylights (Wright would have used flat) as well as the addition of chimney caps, which the architect always sought to eliminate." |
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That whale rock foyer is gorgeous. I love boulders. |
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