I agree that the John Nolen Drive going underneath it is an enclosing experience. But that road was there anyway. Now it has a roof for a section of it. The best views of the Monona Terrace are 1) from across Lake Monona of it, already a classic postcard shot, 2) from inside looking out on the lake, and 3) from on top where there are some of those nifty Wrightesque "lily pads," whoop-de-doo..
One of the private homes he built out in the country used to be the site of rather wild bacchanalian parties back in the 1970s, :-). Barkley Rosser On Fri, 13 Nov 1998 09:11:05 -0500 Louis Proyect <lnp3 at panix.com> wrote:
> A comment received from a friend:
>
> "I attended a wedding reception in
> the new (perhaps the last) Wright building in Madison, w hich looks
> picturesquely over Lake Menona, but is dominated structurally by a
> huge concrete parking lot; drive by the downtown and you're under it,
> looking up as in any other hideous building on the planet. .And that's
> the main way the building is experienced every day, natch. There are
> some wonderful Wright homes scattered around the city and in the
> countryside around Madison, but they were intended for the well=off
> (including profs) and remain so. Actually, the vernacular architecture
> of 1920 or so is more interesting, more Wisconsin-like."
>
>
> Louis Proyect
>
> (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)
-- Rosser Jr, John Barkley rosserjb at jmu.edu