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U.S. NEWS Monday 8 July 2019

8 Frank Lloyd Wright

buildings added to

World Heritage list

By SOPHIA TAREEN
Associated Press
CHICAGO (AP) — The work of famed American architect
Frank Lloyd Wright was recognized Sunday as eight of his
buildings, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Muse-
um in New York City, Los Angeles’ Hollyhock House and
the Unity Temple in suburban Chicago, were added to
the UNESCO World Heritage list.
“Each of these buildings offers innovative solutions to the
needs for housing, worship, work or leisure,” read a state-
ment from the World Heritage Committee. “Wright’s work
from this period had a strong impact on the development
of modern architecture in Europe.”
The committee met Sunday in Baku, Azerbaijan, and also
added to the list Italy’s hills of Conegliano and Valdobbi-
adene, which is home to the world-famous sparkling wine
Prosecco.
The group noted Wright’s use of “organic architecture,”
including an open plan, with blurred boundaries between This Aug. 23, 2007, file photo, visitors gather on one of the
exterior and interior, and the “unprecedented use” of cantilevered terraces at Fallingwater, a Frank Lloyd Wright
steel and concrete. The Wright buildings are the 24th U.S. design in Bear Run, Pa.
site on the list. Associated Press
The other Wright buildings included are the Frederick C.
Robie House in Chicago; Taliesin in Spring Green Wiscon-
sin; the Herbert and Katherine Jacobs House in Madison,
Wisconsin; Fallingwater in Mill Run, Pennsylvania; and
Taliesin West in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Among his most iconic buildings was the Guggenheim
with its spiral ramp for viewing galleries. It was completed
in 1959, the same year Wright died.
The Unity Temple is in Oak Park, Illinois, which is home to
the largest concentration of Wright-designed buildings,
including his home and studio. The church, completed in
1908, was one of the first U.S. public buildings to feature
exposed concrete, according to the Frank Lloyd Wright
Trust, which is based in the Chicago area. The temple
and the Robie House, which recently underwent restora-
tion, are standards of Wright’s “Prairie style,” relying on
strong horizontal features like a prairie landscape.
“This really is a significant moment for Frank Lloyd Wright,”
said trust President & CEO Celeste Adams. “It places him
on an international stage.”q

Memorial to 5

officers killed in

Dallas to be unveiled

DALLAS (AP) — Officials are since the Sept. 11, 2001,
set to unveil a sculpture terror attacks. A sculpture
honoring five police offi- honoring Dallas officers
cers killed in a sniper attack Lorne Ahrens, Michael Krol,
in downtown Dallas three Michael Smith, and Patrick
years ago. Zamarripa, and Dallas Area
Sunday marks three years Rapid Transit Officer Brent
since Micah Johnson Thompson will be unveiled
opened fire on a peaceful Monday in front of police
protest. The Army veteran headquarters.
killed four Dallas police of- Downtown Dallas was
ficers and one transit offi- again the site of a high-
cer. Authorities killed John- profile shooting last month,
son using a robot-delivered when a masked gunman
bomb. July 7, 2016, is con- attacked a federal court-
sidered the deadliest day house. The gunman was
for U.S. law enforcement the only fatality.q