Open Hexagonal Canopy Work
"The 400 foot wide sheltering hexagonal crenelated skeleton canopy filtering sunlight over the structure beneath - like the foliage of a great tree - cutting down air-conditioning in the Valley of the...
View ArticleCanopy and South Colonnade
"The officialdom is related to the Arizona public in convenient ways, simple, becoming and direct - the whole spacious and dignified in designs: all to be excused in materials characteristic of the...
View ArticleOpen Hexagonal Canopy
"Construction is also made easy because all is easily reached directly from the ground. Foundations are inexpensive because [they are] shallow."
View ArticleLegislative Building with Adjacent Offices
"In balcony level areas of the legislature, public seating may easily be extended. Private parking scheme for the legislative body and the executive are provided at special entrance for the...
View ArticleLooking West over Oasis
"Citizens of Arizona - the State is your home! Your spirit should there find appropriate expression. To build an already dated New York monstrosity to stand up to present Arizona to posterity seems to...
View ArticleOutside Covered Walkway
"Many minor offices doing business of the state should not clog the legislative process but be accommodated in the old capitol building, remodeled for the purpose."
View ArticleSouth Colonnade of Oasis
"All [buildings] stand beneath and together in green gardens, fountains playing, pools reflecting. Great vistas of beauty are everywhere: useful function perfected no less - but no more so when thus...
View ArticleSouth Colonnade
"Stone, copper, plastics employed in the great ferro-concrete system of construction that now constitutes the Twentieth Century body of our world. A sheltered air-conditioned spaciousness - all on one...
View ArticleNorth End of Oasis
"The dignity of modern concept in planning and integral construction appropriate to Arizona's own unique character."
View ArticleColonnade and Pool
"Therefore no more Nineteenth Century building for Arizona to go with the mortgage already foreclosed upon her landscape by the 'developer,' the pole-and-wire men and the political...
View ArticleInterior Mall
"Admirable dove-tailing of the public interest and the legislative function."
View ArticleDesigning a Capitol for Arizona
This is a transcript of a conversation with Wright. During the course of the conversation, one is able to better understand Wright's motivations for the design and his hopes for Arizona.
View ArticleDamaged Oasis Model
Many parts of the model had become broken or destroyed over the years.
View ArticleView of Gardens
The restoration of the lattice work allows the viewer an unobscured view into the gardens.
View ArticleOasis Model Before Restoration
Before the model was displayed at the Phoenix Art Museum, it had to go through some extensive restoration.
View ArticleView of the Interior Plaza
This photograph allows natural light to shine through the back of the model. While natural light would not have been able to flow as freely, this image allows the viewer to infer how the rising sun...
View ArticleRendering of Oasis in Papago Hills
An architectural rendering of the Oasis Capitol building. Early drafts of the building had three spires rising out of the building. The viewer is able to see the erasure marks and white-out that was...
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