It goes without saying that architects love to look at buildings. We'll travel far and wide to do just that. But of course, just looking isn't enough--we must experience them, inside and out. So when a friend tells us that there is in fact a Frank Lloyd Wright house in a sleepy, unremarkable Tulsa, Oklahoma neighborhood, we will drive by it. We will get out of the car and admire it from the sidewalk. Before you know it, we will be inching up the driveway, peering through the windows. Then, as if lured by some mysterious force, we're in the back yard...until an angry homeowner comes out in his bathrobe and kindly asks us to leave. What's the craziest thing you've done to get into a building? Did it work??
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I'm a student at the University of British Columbia studying environmental design with a major in architecture. Right now, there is a lot of amazing architecture being erected all over campus from historical building restoration, to modern design housing. Recently a 20 some-odd story apartment building went into the drywalling stage, and I couldn't keep away. At night, a few of my friends and I snuck past the security gates and up the stairwells. It was great because, although it was the middle of winter (with snow on the ground), because of the drywalling, there were propane heaters everywhere to dry the drywall mud. Needless to say we spent a good hour or more exploring the building from the very top of the roof, through the apartments-to-be. It is now in the selling stages and sealed.
Posted by Max McLaughlin | April 18, 2008 12:18 AM
Posted on April 18, 2008 00:18