Originally Posted by
BearX220
Reminds me of the complaints about Frank Lloyd Wright houses like Fallingwater. Beautiful designs way ahead of their time, but leaky and drafty, difficult to heat, not enough storage space, hard to live in -- issues Wright himself was notoriously indifferent about once the places were built.
When phoned by the irritated owner of Wingspread, about a leaky roof directly above his dining table, Frank Lloyd Wright responded...
Originally Posted by Herbert Johnson
Frank, I am hosting a dinner party, and water from your leaky roof is dripping on my head.
Originally Posted by Frank Lloyd Wright
Well, Hib, why don't you move your chair?
Both the TWA and Pan Am terminals at JFK were marvelous once. But they were barely functional after the jumbo jets arrived. I flew out of both terminals in the 1980s, and they were long past their prime.