Atlantic Magazine takes a look at one of Oklahoma's notable buildings designed by the famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright.
This monument to Wright's supernatural powers of persuasion still stands in a quiet corner of Bartlesville, a city of 35,000. It's easily one of the more bizarre towers ever built. Wright, who is best known for his low Prairie-style buildings, had a complicated relationship with tall buildings, calling one an "incongruous mantrap of monstrous dimensions." Yet late in life he created drawings for a 528-story skyscraper featuring atomic-powered elevators with five cabs strung vertically in each shaft. (It was never built.) Price Tower is the tallest building Wright constructed, and it’s every bit as startling rising out of the low Oklahoma hills as his corkscrewy Guggenheim Museum is crouched in the canyons of Manhattan.
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