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Too bad he didn't build the Illinois...

• dhosek 2y ago
  It would have been awful. Past about 50–60 floors, highrises end up just being impractical. And while Wright was a great artist, to be honest, he was kind of a bust as an engineer and I suspect that the Illinois, had it been started would likely have never been completed thanks to cost overruns and would be a disaster if finished thanks to engineering oversights (I doubt, for example, that he would have properly engineered for wind shear).
  • lambdasquirrel 2y ago
    From the article, it was only 19 floors? But it was built in Oklahoma, where there once were oil wells, and now that the wells are not operational, it's unclear what'll happen to the building in the long run. I think the parent comment is has a point. If it were near Chicago (where Wright was based out of), it'd get visitors.
    • voidfunc 2y ago
      OP was musing, the Illinois was a proposed/concept skyscraper by Wright. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Illinois https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Illinois