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    The Larkin Building was constructed in 1906 in Buffalo, New York and was designed by famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright. It was built for the Larkin Soap Company and featured an atrium workspace illuminated by skylights. Wright designed innovative furniture for the building like three-legged chairs that tipped over easily. The building changed office design with features like air conditioning, stained glass windows, and built-in furniture. It demonstrated Wright's principles of emphasizing light, pattern, and balance through its design.

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    The Larkin Building was constructed in 1906 in Buffalo, New York and was designed by famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright. It was built for the Larkin Soap Company and featured an atrium workspace illuminated by skylights. Wright designed innovative furniture for the building like three-legged chairs that tipped over easily. The building changed office design with features like air conditioning, stained glass windows, and built-in furniture. It demonstrated Wright's principles of emphasizing light, pattern, and balance through its design.

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    The Larkin Building was constructed in 1906 in Buffalo, New York and was designed by famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright. It was built for the Larkin Soap Company and featured an atrium workspace illuminated by skylights. Wright designed innovative furniture for the building like three-legged chairs that tipped over easily. The building changed office design with features like air conditioning, stained glass windows, and built-in furniture. It demonstrated Wright's principles of emphasizing light, pattern, and balance through its design.

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    THE LARKIN

    BUILDING
    KELSEY E. DAVIS
    THE LARKIN
    BUILDING-
    ATRIUM

    The structure was built in 1906 in


    Buffalo, New York by one of the most
    famous architects, Frank Lloyd Wright.
    The building was designed for the
    Larkin Soap Company at 680 Seneca
    Street.
    THE LARKIN BUILDING-FLOOR PLAN
    LARKIN BUILDING- SECTION AND ELEVATION

    Section Elevation
    LARKIN
    BUILDING-
    ATRIUM
     The atrium of the Larkin Soap
    building was used as an office
    space. In that space Frank Lloyd
    Wright even designed the desk
    chairs that folded away for easy
    cleaning. This clearly made the
    cleaning staff happy, but their
    limited movement made the office
    staff upset. Wright’s three-legged
    chairs also were dubbed ”the
    suicide chairs” after the continually
    tipped over, knocking workers on to
    the floor.
    LARKIN
    BUILDING
    LARKIN
    BUILDING
    LARKIN BUILDING-
    PRINCIPLES AND ELEMENTS
    DIAGRAM
    • Line: vertical columns and the windows of
    the floor levels
    • Shape: square and rectangular shape of
    windows
    • Light: shinning down from the skylights of
    the atrium
    • Pattern: the square pattern of the leading lines
    on the walls
    • Balance: the symmetry to the elongated
    hallway
    • Contrast: light vs dark
    • Rhythm: movement of the lines drawing you
    to the back of the room
    • Unity: squares throughout design bringing the
    space together
    • Harmony: reoccurring shapes throughout the
    entire space
    • Form: 3D squares and rectangles
    LARKIN BUILDING-
    IMPORTANCE OF
    INTERIORS
    The Larkin Building changed a whole lot of
    what we know as design. For example, air
    conditioning, stained glass windows, built-in
    desk furniture, and suspended toilet bowls. The
    interior and its verticality was new for office
    spaces and inspired the future of the work-
    place. Magnesite was used for sculptural
    decoration on the piers. The floors, stairs,
    doors, window-sills, partitions, desk-tops, and
    plumbing slabs were also coated in Magnesite
    for sound absorption. The 76-foot-tall light
    court was located in the center of the building
    providing natural sunlight to all the floors. The
    Larkin Building was thoroughly thought out
    and planned to instill both beauty and
    functionality into it.
    LARKIN BUILDING
    COLLAGE
    This collage showcases the
    building and ties in contrasting
    bright patterns of the 1900’s.
    Additionally, Wright is seen in the
    image along with his very
    unpopular three-legged chairs.
    CITATIONS

     “Larkin Administration Building.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 26 May 2020,


    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larkin_Administration_Building. 
     “Larkin Building-Frank Lloyd Wright – Free Autocad Blocks & Drawings Download Center: Frank Lloyd Wright
    Architecture, Famous Architecture, Architecture Elevation.” Pinterest, www.pinterest.com/pin/677017756453693462/. 
     Malloy, Jerry M. The Larkin Administration Building - A 'Wright' of Passage in Buffalo, 1 Jan. 1970,
    www.buffalohistorygazette.net/2011/10/larkin-administration-building-of.html. 
     Rozhon, Tracie. “They Aimed for a Better Workplace.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 30 Jan. 2001,
    www.nytimes.com/2001/01/30/jobs/they-aimed-for-a-better-workplace.html. 
     Wolfe, Ross. “Frank Lloyd Wright's Larkin Administrative Building in Buffalo, NY (1906).” Flickr, Yahoo!, 27 Aug.
    2013, www.flickr.com/photos/98803345@N06/9608579447/in/photostream/. 

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