Featured here before, yes, but The Washington Post has just recently featured what the Prairie Mod blog calls “one of the most famous missed architectural opportunities of the 20th century”: Frank Lloyd Wright's 1940 design for America's capital which he named Crystal Heights (or Crystal City) – a project killed by town planners.
Read all about it here.
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Or would have been another Brasilia?
Nice concept, stunning execution (in part) but in reality does it work?
Does it work, Robin. No it doesn't -- it was never built.
But would it have worked? Yes, I believe it would.
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