patkau architects: fallingwater cottages
patkau architects: fallingwater cottages
fallingwater cottages by patkau architects
earlier this month fallingwater announced patkau architects of vancouver, british columbia,
as the winner of its first-ever design competition for on-site cottages that will support
residential educational programming at the frank lloyd wright masterwork in fayette county,
pennslyvania.
patkau architects’ winning design for six small, efficient, sustainable cottages will serve as
the basis of a final design, to be implemented following regulatory approval and fundraising.
in its subtlety, it is provocative and it carries forward the discourse about where architecture
can move, the jury said of the winning design. its strength is not just in what is included,
but in what is left out.
the western pennsylvania conservancy, which preserves and maintains fallingwater, will build
the cottages on the grounds of the 5,000-acre bear run nature reserve that surrounds fallingwater,
some distance from the house itself. the design competition is the first that fallingwater has
sponsored for construction of new buildings on-site.
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