I enjoyed watching this, thank you.

Nice photography ...

I kept looking at the great room and thinking all it really needs is a pool table. I wonder how Wright felt about pool tables.

I’d seen only old black and gray photos of it and always thought, Wow, that’s ugly! But seeing this video-was I ever wrong!

The statue was over Co-operation, Economy Industry in the one picture. Did they move those statues around? This rendering is very cool.

A loss to humanity. The highest of human thought - design, beauty, and virtues meant to stand the test of time demolished like yesterday’s trash. This made me cry.

Does anyone know the name of the music playing in the background? Thanks

Genius.

Such brilliant man that saw the horizontal lines in the American landscape. Thanks to Wright a new style was developed that reglected something considered very American.

Apparently the furniture is extremely uncomfortable. There is a display elsewhere that features replicas of this that you can actually sit on.

Architecturally striking but ergonomically flawed for Chicago's harsh winters. With all those floor to ceiling French doors you would freeze from all the draft intrusion. There are 16 large glass doors in the living room dining room which represents a tremendous amount of heat loss. You'd have to winter in Florida!

Most of the year the interior should be considerably darker than what we see in the rendering. The latitude there is 42.88°, therefore the Sun would be at around 70° only during and near the solstice. That being said, the building was amazing for that time and it's sad it was demolished.

I cannot believe no one in the entire United States saved this building. what a tragic loss

You quite incorrectly politicized the Prairie School by your post WWI comment. Your point is way off. With the women’s movement, ie; voting rights etc. at the time, women became more active in home decisions. The ladies preferred historic styles, not the masculinity of the prairie buildings. Men abdicated.

As a Wright aficionado, I have visited the site. I have also dug into reference materials and have a fair idea how the air conditioning system worked. I am an air conditioning engineer, and study the history of refrigeration. Can other visitors direct me to primary sources? thanks.

Could Watch Videos Like This All Day! The Imperial Hotel Video Doesn't Work And Won't Let Me Download Because It Says It's 4 Kids!!!! I Wish That Was Changed.

A Masterwork!

A great experience can be had by taking the full day FLW tour provided by the Darwin Martin House... We even stopped to see the remaining brick pier and the remaining parking lot that occupies the space where the Larking Building once stood. The folks in Buffalo have done right by Wright.

The Larkin Building had so many external Art Deco elements, before Art Deco existed. And indoors, it had many modern design elements that would still make it count as a current building, if only the city "leaders" had not been so foolish as to permit its demolition.

Somehow, Wright managed to achieve a strong sense of vasr, natural space in the context of a crowded urban space. Genius. Prayers.

I loooove this house! Prayers.

I see many videos about fascinating Wright homes falling into disrepair, beset by construction defects or just the ravages of time. Are early Wright house plans in the public domain? Can they be copied and rebuilt with modern construction methods?

WOW!

lovely photos you chose for the cast of characters

Beautiful presentation.

Reminds me of grandparents house would be nice for an old couple and grandkids to relax at. So nice all of his works.

It is gutting to watch the beauty of this soaring animation knowing the subject building in its perfection was torn apart and willfully destroyed. Humankind, will you ever learn.

Beautiful building. Too bad it was taken down.

the only fatal flaw of the building was the glass roof, in a storm the people below would be injured.

Such a shame. At least we have documentation for the buildings to preserve his genius.

winnipeg has a good number of prairie school-influenced houses along balmoral street from broadway south to mostyn place. 1 block. i like them but not as much as i love my gothic arches.

Ayo the me robi :( how

This doesn’t even look like a house that people lived in but they did

What a beautiful building. Such a shame that it wasn't saved.

A bit woody.

it looks like a tacky demo of brickwork. It really has nothing that makes it a nice looking design nor nice and usable house to live in it is, utter bullllllllllshiiiiiit

Bella e utile ricostruzione in 3D.

Why would they destroy such a wonderful and functional piece of architecture?

This (with many alterations) seems like it would make an amazing high school.

this be putting me to sleep

I have an old book from 1906 that was left as a time capsule, in my old house about Larkin and its awesome to see what it really looked like back in its time :D

It's disappointing that only two rooms were shown. The house looks more like an office building to me. The building materials used are gorgeous, but it seems to have so much wasted space with the long narrow hallways. Maybe the lack of being able to see much of it just gives that impression. LOVE the windows. They are the piece de resistance of the whole house.

Bravo !

Larkin Building was a good 100 years before its time. What idiot made the decision to destroy a building that would be worth 10X it's value in another 25 - 50 years? It is amazingly - lacking in foresight.

Wonderfull homes that are fit for God's, not humans. Unless you were a part of the billionaire class. Forget about owning your own personal furnishings. FLW designed everything, the carpeting the tables and chairs. You couldn't back then or now, be able to buy your own things, because they would look cheap in contrast. His chairs were magnificent, but extremely uncomfortable. You'd have to be rich enough to have a full staff of house cleaners too. All the ceiling wood trim would be magnets for cobwebs and dust,...that would require a designated staff to keep after. These wonderful homes are sort stuck being museums, as I suspect they aren't much fun to live in,....though staying in them for a week or so would fun. They might bend your brain, because everything is so geometrical,....very few things possess curves, if any at all. His houses seemed to be at war with curves and anything round. I have seen some lesser FLW homes where the owner's were able to introduce high quality authentic Mission Styled furnishings, and even a few Bauhaus inspired items. Forget about trying to place some Mid Century Modern items into these homes. The homes would revolt, and implode.

In recent years I have seen some FLW designed houses in my home state of Ohio. They are his buildings referred to as the Usonian (style) from the 1930s. They possess a low roofline, are very horizontal, & are usually single story, homes, with flat roofs. They are nettled in sites with natural elements all around. They always employ locally quarried stone & common building materials of brick and concrete. The interiors are sort of dark, with dark red painted concrete floors, and lots of medium dark wood on the walls, surrounding the brick areas. The living rooms & dinning rooms have plenty light from large windows of open glass, no grids of panes & they enjoy the views of the nature outside. Some interior walls are concrete block, and are usually presented and meant to be kept, in their natural (concrete) finish, not painted or plastered over. To me they feel & look like, Craftsman Styled homes, though more like bungalows. In all the Wright designed homes, he includes all the shelving and furniture he's designed specifically for the homes. They are wonderful and well thought out, but is it hard to find complementary, manufactured furnishings one might also need.

magnificent, such a loss

My best guess as to the number of all types of bricks used in this construction is in the neighborhood of 3.147 billion bricks plus or minus a few.

A sincere thank you to the FLW Trust and Razin Kahn for creating and posting this for all of us to enjoy. "Don't (re)build it in Buffalo" comment was unfair. The city of Buffalo tried for almost 5 years to sell the building and advertised it all over the country. No buyers, which may have been due to the fact that the building was designed so specifically for the Larkin Co. Teardowns of buildings that we now wish we had have occurred all over the world and more are demo'd everyday. Today its trash, tomorrow treasure. Buffalo would have to have held on to it for at least another 30 or more years before anyone would care about it. Sure there was outcry at the time of the demo from architecture enthusiasts, but who was putting up the cash to buy it and preserve it? No one.

Really cool - at around the 1:24 mark, you'll notice - bottom-centre - buddy walking on the spot.