Конкурсный перевод, ноябрь-2019, II курс, д/о Characters without spaces: 2050

Price Tower The Price Tower is the only cantilevered skyscraper by Frank

Completed in 1956, the Price Tower in Bartlesville, is the first and only realized high-rise project by the famed architect . Designed for Harold C. Price* as the headquarters for his local oil pipeline and chemical firm, the Price Tower is a departure from the style of Wright. The idea for the Price Tower was conceptualized as a tree such that there was one supporting, organizational system - the core - that fed into the rest of the floors. The concept was a way in which to think of the core, or trunk, as more than just a main structural support, but as of an element that makes the floors become fully integrated into the overall system while in effect* destabilizing the cores dominance on each floor. Wright nicknamed the building “the tree that escaped the crowded forest” that was not only a play on his concept, but a reference to a high-rise building that Wright had designed for , yet was never built. At the time Wright had become the master of cantilevering volumes and planes. In keeping with his initial conception of the tree as an organizational system, all of the floor plates in the Price Tower cantilever off of the central core as to free up the floor for different spatial configurations. Even though, the Price Tower was intended mainly for the headquarters of H.C. Price Company and other office spaces, there was an idea by the Price family to include residential units in the building to help sustain the building’s use and financial security. Wright’s solution to organizing the mixed use tower resulted in rotating the axes of floor plate 45 degrees. That subdivided the floors and the building into four quadrants*. Three of the quadrants were for office use, while the other consisted of two-floor residential units. The cast concrete of walls, core and pigmented floors along with the copper panel cladding establishes a relationship with nature through the buildings earthy tones. Despite the difference between the Price Tower and earlier works of Wright, Wright is able to have the tower reflect the same organic aesthetic relating nature with architecture.

______* Harold C. Price – (c. 1909 – 2004) was an American businessman and philanthropist * in effect – по сути, в действительности * quadrant – квадрант (четверть пространства, ограниченная двумя пересекающимися перпендикулярными плоскостям)