October 29, 2004
Supersizing Frank Lloyd Wright
It is hard to imagine an architectural challenge more daunting than designing a megabuilding for a site across a side street from a landmark Frank Lloyd Wright house. But that's what the University of Chicago asked the architect Raphael Viñoly to do -- put up a 415,000-square-foot Graduate School of Business so close to the 1910 Robie House that a BlackBerry thrown off one of the new building's terraces could probably sail right over Wright's cantilevered roof with room to
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