• A glass chapel framed by redwoods is coming down, piece by piece: ‘It’s a crying shame’

    A glass chapel framed by redwoods is coming down, piece by piece: ‘It’s a crying shame’
    The dismantling of Frank Lloyd Wright Jr’s Wayfarers Chapel after landslides shows the vulnerability of cultural sites in an increasingly volatile climateFor 73 years it reigned, unique and serene, on a high plateau overlooking the Pacific Ocean: the Wayfarers Chapel, Frank Lloyd Wright Jr’s midcentury reinvention of what a church could be.The photogenic, see-through sanctuary framed in a canopy of redwoods was beloved long before it became Instagram-famous. Jayne Mansfield was marri

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