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Wisconsin is Frank Lloyd Wright country, and more of the world may realize this as early as next month, when the UNESCO World Heritage Committee meets in Istanbul, Turkey.

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A decade after finishing the SC Johnson Administration building in Racine, Wisconsin, Frank Lloyd Wright started the construction of the Research and Development Tower. The 1950s building for SC Johnson was the home to many of the company’s most well-known inventions and was in need of lab facilities for their rising research and development department.

Officials doubted that the famed architect's Johnson Wax headquarters in Racine, Wis., was structurally sound. But no one questions the master. CNET Road Trip 2013 checked out the stunning building.

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It took America’s greatest architect to give to the Johnson Wax Headquarters the right interpretation, conceiving a social architecture consecrated, in an almost religious way, to modern labor. For his… Continue reading The post Workspace History – The Johnson Wax Headquarters by Frank Lloyd Wright appeared first on DesignWanted.

Frank Lloyd Wright for the Johnson Wax Building, 1937-39

Frank Lloyd Wright

Artist rendition of the exterior view of the research and development tower of the Johnson Wax building.