The Guggenheim-like structure features a spiraling ramp There is plenty to love about the work of prolific American architect Frank Lloyd Wright, from his textile block houses to famous buildings like the Guggenheim Museum. But of the 1,171 works Wright created in his lifetime, 660 remain unbuilt. These lost works are worthy of study on their own, an intriguing thought experiment of what might have been.
Spanish architect David Romero has a lengthy portfolio of never-realized Wright designs?including the 1958 Trinity Chapel?or long-gone works like the 1904 Larkin Administration Building (demolished for a never-built truck stop) and the 1942 Rose Pauson House (which burned down in 1943).
Now, Romero has partnered with the The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation to create a series of renderings of the unbuilt Gordon Strong Automobile Objective, a tourist attraction designed by Wright in 1924 to sit atop Maryland?s Sugarloaf Mountain.
Images by David Romero, courtesy of the The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation
Gordon Strong at night

?Wright managed to combine in a single building the sense of something playful with the majesty of an impressive monument,? Romero said of the Automobile Objective. ?It is a pity that it could not be built. If it had, I think it would be one of his most celebrated designs.?
Because of the spiraling ramp featured in the design of the Automobile Objective, Romero referenced photographs of the Guggenheim Museum to help unders...