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...attempt to give the U. S. something new in church architecture last week had proved too revolutionary for Kansas City's public works department. Months ago aging (71), progressive Pastor Burris Jenkins of Kansas City asked Wright to design a new Community Church. Aging (71), progressive Architect Wright responded with what he called "the first completely functional church." Last fortnight Commissioner of Buildings Frank Lloyd (no relation) Lang took a look at the plans, refused to issue a permit because they did not comply with the city's 1927 building code. He demanded more exact specifications...
...floor, instead of visible radiators, its steel-&-gunite walls. Such walls have never before been built-they are made of steel props interwoven with flexible laths of steel and paper, on which is sprayed gunite (cement shot from guns)-the whole only 2¼-in. thick. Architect Wright's plan for the Johnson Wax plant at Racine, Wis. in 1938 similarly set the Wisconsin State Industrial Commission on its ear. Its columns were neither pillars nor posts but tall stem forms, tapering from a concrete disk 20 ft. in diameter at the top to a shaft 8 in. thick...
While church members fumed at the delay and building costs mounted, Engineer Irwin Pfuhl, recommended by the building department, was commissioned to revise the plans for the church's foundations, so that work could go ahead on them this week. Architect Wright agreed to be a little more specific about his specifications...
...when it is built, Architect Wright's church (see cut} will indeed be a landmark in ecclesiastical design. An integral part of its angular, efficient structure is a triple-decker parking space for the congregation's cars. "It is immoral and unethical to build a structure without providing for the traffic it will attract," Wright told the church board. "You don't want an immoral church, do you?" They did not. Though the building department dislikes its thin walls and invisible heating, it will be the first church in the U. S. to be fully...
...statues, never conceded him a top ranking among Swedish artists. It was not until 1926, when curious Londoners gathered together a large Milles exhibition at the Tate Gallery, that Carl Milles became known to the outside world as Sweden's No. 1 sculptor. Following year Chicago's Architects Holabird & Root brought him to the U. S. to do a fountain for their Michigan Square Building in Chicago. Then Detroit's Philanthropist George Booth, who was trying to found an ideal art colony at nearby Cranbrook, invited Milles to teach sculpture there. Since then Milles has lived...