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Casa LHT, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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We had a discussion with the clients and agreed that the most noble point should be on the rooftop, as from there we would have a breathtaking view of Botafogo Bay, the Christ the Redeemer statue, and Sugarloaf Mountain, as well as greater privacy and better sunlight conditions.

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“Conundrum of architecture”

Architecture Here and There

Wright’s only skyscraper, the 1956 Price Tower in Oklahoma, was a 19-floor baby compared to Chicago’s 109-floor Sears Tower, though that didn’t stop him dreaming up oddities like his (mercifully unbuilt) ‘Automobile Objective’ on Maryland’s Sugarloaf Mountain. The great exemplar was the 1954 Pruitt-Igoe housing project in St Louis.