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The Arizona State Capital building interior looks like something straight out of Star Trek, circa Star Trek I - VI movies - maybe a smaller building at Starflee
by daveslash 4y ago
The Arizona State Capital building interior looks like something straight out of Star Trek, circa Star Trek I - VI movies - maybe a smaller building at Starfleet Headquarters.
- ramesh31 4y ago>The Arizona State Capital building interior looks like something straight out of Star Trek, circa Star Trek I - VI movies He basically defined the american mid-century modern aesthetic, from which TOS set design was heavily influenced.
- linksnapzz 4y agoIt was...polarizing. FLW wasn't invited to to participate in the contest for the new capitol; he hated the proposed designs, and wanted to make a statement all his own. As reported in the papers at the time, Arizonans thirty or younger mostly loved it. Older folks, many of whom had lived in the area since before it was a state, were disdainful at best. One old cowboy referred to the drawing as "looking like an Oriental whorehouse". Dropping it in the middle of Papago Park was also a controversial choice. One of the drawings for it is still in FLW's office at Taliesin West.