October 2, 2009
  Funding Secured to Restore Wright’s Park Inn Hotel in Iowa
Wright on the Park, a restoration group bent on restoring the last remaining Frank Lloyd Wright-designed hotel, has secured funding so that the remaining work in Mason City, Iowa, can go forward. Completed in 1910 as part of a multi-use facility, which included the City National Bank and law offices for the owner-developers, the $18 million hotel and former bank façade restoration and complex renovation will be complete by early 2011.

Lawrence Architecture Makes Modern Materials Work on a Picture-Postcard Pacific Northwest Site
The West Seattle Residence stands out in the portfolio of Thomas Lawrence, AIA, because of a simple material fascination that was the product of a unique client relationship. This house of concrete, glass, and steel in Seattle is a dramatic material break from most of Lawrence Architecture’s past projects. Lawrence’s oeuvre is composed primarily of residential projects; both urban infill houses and woodsy, rural cabins that let simple, natural materials speak for themselves—traditional without being reactionary or kitschy.

 

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