TheHydraulics.com will feature an “urban scene of the week” of Hydraulics sights and scenes on a roughly weekly basis – weekly, meaning “whenever the inspiration and the camera intersect.”

This week, the highlight is the fence pier of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Larkin Administration Building, built in 1904 and demolished in 1950, with the exception of this one lone artifact. The fence pier, on Swan Street, is all that remains of Wright’s masterpiece, what was considered by architecture critic Henry-Russel Hitchcock to be “the most important building ever demolished in the 20th century.” Read the rest of this entry »