• Source: Menara Price

Menara Price adalah menara 19 lantai setinggi 221 kaki (67 m) di Bartlesville, Oklahoma yang didesain oleh Frank Lloyd Wright. Menara ini merupakan satu-satunya gedung pencakar langit yang dapat direalisasikan oleh Wright.
Kontraktor menara ini adalah Harold C. Price dari H. C. Price Company, sebuah perusahaan kimia dan pipa minyak lokal. Menara ini dibuka untuk umum pada Februari 1956.




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Menara Price dibangun oleh Harold C. Price untuk digunakan sebagai kantor pusat perusahaannya. Pemilihan Frank Lloyd Wright sebagai arsitek dilakukan atas arahan Bruce Goff, yang saat itu menjabat sebagai Dekan Arsitektur Universitas Oklahoma, tempat kuliah dua putra Price (Harold Jr. dan Joe). Wright dan Goff kemudian menjadi arsitek tetap bagi keluarga Price. Wright merancang rumah di Arizona untuk Harold C. Price dan rumah di Bartlesville untuk keluarga Harold Jr. Goff, yang juga merupakan penghuni Menara Price, menjadi arsitek favorit Joe Price.
Wright menjuluki Menara Price sebagai "the tree that escaped the crowded forest" (pohon yang lari dari hutan lebat), tidak hanya karena konstruksinya, tetapi juga karena asal mula rancangannya. Menara Price dibangun di atas padang rumput Oklahoma. Menara Price disangga oleh "batang" pusat dari empat poros lift yang ditanam dengan pondasi sentral yang dalam, seperti pohon dengan akar tunggangnya. Kesembilanbelas lantai bangunan bertumpu pada inti pusat ini, menyerupai cabang-cabang sebuah pohon. Dinding luar tergantung dari lantai dan tertutupi "daun-daun" berlapis tipis tembaga. Wright telah memperjuangkan ide rancangan ini sebelum pembangunan Menara Price, dimulai pada tahun 1920-an pada rancangannya untuk kompleks apartemen empat menara St. Marks-in-the-Bowerie di pusat kota New York. Efek dari Depresi Besar, proyek itu ditangguhkan dan kemudian desain diterapkan oleh Wright untuk Price Company pada tahun 1952. Oleh karena itu, dapat dikatakan bahwa Wright mencabut "pohon"nya keluar dari "hutan lebat" pencakar-pencakar langit Manhattan dan menempatkannya di padang rumput Oklahoma tempat "pohon" itu terus berdiri tanpa disesaki oleh gedung-gedung tinggi di sekitarnya.
Bahan-bahan untuk Menara Price juga inovatif untuk gedung pencakar langit pertengahan abad kedua puluh, antara lain: dinding beton yang dicor, lantai beton berwarna, jendela dan pintu aluminium, serta panel berlapis tipis tembaga yang timbul. Elemen geometris yang umum digunakan adalah segitiga sama sisi, dan semua perlengkapan pencahayaan dan kisi-kisi ventilasi didasarkan pada bentuk itu. Sementara dinding miring dan perabotan terpasang didasarkan pada fraksi atau kelipatan modul segitiga. Di lobi terdapat dua inskripsi karya Walt Whitman. Satu berasal dari bait penutup Salut au Monde dan yang kedua dari Song of the Broad-Axe.
Wright merancang proyek St. Mark untuk apartemen, tapi Menara Price-nya menjadi sebuah bangunan multifungsi untuk perkantoran, pertokoan, dan apartemen. H. C. Price Company adalah tenan utamanya dan lantai lainnya yang tersisa menjadi sumber penghasilan. Penyewanya terdiri atas pengacara, akuntan, dokter, dokter gigi, agen asuransi, dan arsitek Bruce Goff, yang menyewa satu apartemen sebagai kantor di menara itu.




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Price Tower Arts Center
Price Tower Arts Center info on TravelOK.com Official travel and tourism website for the State of Oklahoma
Chicago Architecture Foundation Opens Price Tower Exhibit Diarsipkan 2009-05-12 di Wayback Machine. dBNews Chicago, Wednesday, January 10 2007

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