Obviously, since we stayed there, much of the Tower has been turned into a hotel, The Inn at Price Tower: 'The only place in the world to book a hotel stay in a building designed and built by Frank Lloyd Wright'. Our room was very cool. S and K got us a suite that included two floors: the bottom full floor (on 13) was almost exactly like Wright's drawing. They've taken out the build-ins in the renovation, which is tasteful, spare, and works very well. The second (14th) floor was a sleeping loft, pretty similar to this picture.
Some notes from our tour:
- I didn't know there was a list of 17 buildings by Wright deemed most important by the AIA. We've seen 1, 4, 8, 15, and 17. We were in Scotsdale once but didn't make it to Taliesin West. Since my current employer is headquartered in Madison, WI, I'm hopeful that I'll be able to take in Taliesin III soon.
- Wright designed Price Tower to be a mixed use facility, which is good urban planning, and more sought after these days.
- Zaha Hadid has designed a new exhibition space for the Tower. It reminded me of a more horizontal Guggenheim, in terms of traffic flow, but that could be a mistaken impression.
- The Tower itself is so small and cute: you turn the corner and you've reached the end of it.
- We had the real FLW experience: dripping water. Water dripped all night from the 15th floor balcony onto ours on the 14th. It bothered Christine when she was trying to sleep more than me.
- The design of the restaurant, Copper, was fine. The food there was very good. I had the blackened salmon. We didn't stay for the musical act 'Snooty Jazz', but I heard them perform 'Misty' (for real. We could hear them on 15 through our floor. Thankfully, they stopped at 11.).
- We ate our complimentary continental breakfast on one of the two 16th floor terracitos (is that a word for 'little terraces'?). That was fun.
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