Tydol Filling Station, Buffalo Transportation Pierce Arrow Museum, Michigan Avenue, Buffalo, NY : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Tydol Filling Station, Buffalo Transportation Pierce Arrow Museum, Michigan Avenue, Buffalo, NY / w_lemay
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| 説明 | Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1927 for the Tydol Gas Company, this early Organic Modern gas station never got past the conceptual phase, with the present structure inside the museum being based on a series of sketches and preliminary drawings, as well as other extant contemporaneous works by Frank Lloyd Wright. The gas station was intended to be built at the corner of Cherry Street and Michigan Avenue at the edge of Downtown Buffalo, where the Kensington Expressway currently ends, and was intended to operate as a 24-hour service station, with an attendant having quarters in the basement. The reproduction was constructed inside the 2011-2012 addition to the Buffalo Transportation Pierce Arrow Museum so as to allow it to be as faithful to the original design as possible; building the structure outside as an independent building would have required it to comply with modern building and accessibility codes, which would have compromised the design. Building it as an exhibit inside the museum allowed exemptions from most rules that would have caused major alterations to the design. The design was commissioned by William Heath, whom was an executive at the Larkin Company and part owner of the Tydol Gas Company, whom had commissioned Wright to design his private family residence in 1904-1905.The building features a Y-shaped hipped copper-clad canopy with clean lines and cantilevered ends over the fuel pumps, which are uniquely suspended from the canopy itself and made of glass and copper, with the design of the fuel pumps having never been fully developed, and being built primarily based on a preliminary concept. The roof is punctured by two copper spires that run up from the ground and terminate at pyramidal pinnacles, with a sign displaying the word “Tydol” being suspended between the two columns in highly stylized lettering, with the design of this sign having been very preliminary, and often difficult to read, being a result of Wright’s alleged dissatisfaction with the company’s existing logo and signage. The canopy is also penetrated by a portion of the filling station attendant and lounge building, which features a low-slope roof with three segments at two different heights, enclosed by parapets. Underneath the rear portion of the Y-shaped canopy is the filling station’s attendant and lounge building, which was meant to house quarters for the filling station attendant, as well as a lounge and restrooms for customers, with these spaces being furnished and featuring actual plumbing fixtures and furniture of the type that would have been found in the building had it been built in 1927. The building has multiple tiers, with the lower tier being larger and offset from the exterior of the upper tier, which itself is offset somewhat from the elements that penetrate the canopy above and run to the roofline. The lounge, located on the second floor, features a ribbon window that runs around the front and terminates at doorways on either side, with a large planter on the rooftop of the wider lower tier below. The lower tier has the base of the two spires at the end corners of the front of the structure, with doors to the lower level attendant quarters sitting next to the spire bases. Access to the upper level is granted by stairs that broaden towards the base and bend 90 degrees in the middle. The building features vertical windows in the rear, which were designed to allow light into the upstairs restrooms. The rear of the building features a staircase receding into the ground, which provides access to an additional door to the attendant quarters. The entire building is made up of elements at 90-degree and 45-degree angles in plan, with the exception of the canopy’s hipped roof and the vertical profiles of the two spires. Due to the preliminary nature of the source material, some elements remain unresolved or had to be inferred, including the gas pumps, how the sign was to be mounted to the spires, fixtures and furnishings inside the building, and what type of doors and windows were to be used.The building sits in the middle of several on-display cars and the collection of the museum, which features cars dating between 1903 and the 1960s, with several examples of automobiles manufactured in Buffalo by the Pierce-Arrow Motor Car Company, as well as bicycles, fuel pumps, automobile memorabilia, horse-drawn carriages, and motorcycles. The filling station is the centerpiece of the museum’s expansion, and faithfully tried to recreate Wright’s intentions, one of several examples of this in the Buffalo region, with the Fontana Boathouse and Blue Sky Mausoleum both being built around the same time, along with the reconstruction of the lost sections of the Darwin D. Martin House. Additionally, a single Wright-designed filling station was built in Cloquet, Minnesota in 1958 during Wright’s lifetime, which was one of the last commissions of his career, and does share several common design and stylistic elements with this earlier design. |
| 撮影日 | 2022-08-13 11:13:27 |
| 撮影者 | w_lemay , Chicago, IL, United States |
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| 撮影地 | Buffalo, New York, United States 地図 |