In 1956...enough office space to house the entire state government

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why not replace it with the same thing? ..except make the twin towers even bigger?

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The FLW design is surely better looking than that POS that was revealed yesterday.  The main problem is that Wright was a piss poor structural engineer; clueless, in fact.

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I think they should replace the towers with twin ICBM silos.

And in the interest of diversity and multi-culturalism, point them at Mecca.

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The FLW design is surely better looking than that POS that was revealed yesterday.  The main problem is that Wright was a piss poor [red]structural engineer[/red]; clueless, in fact.

[url]http://www.peterbeers.net/interests/flw_rt/Wisconsin/johnson_wax/johnson_wax.htm[/url]The ceiling and roof are supported by these large "lily pad" columns that start at a slender 9" at the bottom, and reach 18 feet in diameter at the top.  There are 77 of them that hold the building up.  The famous story about them was that the original building committee wouldn't grant Wright a permit to build the structure because they didn't think the columns could support the weight.  They determined that each column must support 12 tons in order to safely support the building.  Wright was disgusted by their lack of confidence and foresight and decided that a public demonstration was called for.  He constructed one of the columns and then invited the entire building committee along with the press to witness the demonstration of strength.  He even hired an orchestra to play while the demonstration went on.  His plan was to pile at least 12 tons of weight on the column and continue adding weight until the column collapsed.  His little demonstration payed off.  The column was able to support more than 60 tons of sand before it finally collapsed.... more than 5 times the weight that it was required to.  Needless to say he got the building permit.

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Frank Lloyd Wright [red]never[/red] built a building whose roof didn't leak.   Fallingwaters is a structural mess.  The art of building over a waterfall was more important to him than the engineering difficulties of dealing with that much moisture.  It is costing more to repair the moisture related damage than it cost to build the building in the first place.