A house was built to float directly over a waterfall
Frank Lloyd Wright defied gravity and his own client's wishes to build a home that doesn't just look at a waterfall, but becomes part of its roar.
When Edgar Kaufmann commissioned a weekend retreat in Pennsylvania, he expected a house with a view of the falls on Bear Run. Instead, Frank Lloyd Wright built the house directly on top of them. Using massive reinforced concrete cantilevers—beams anchored only at one end—Wright projected the living room 15 feet over the rushing water, creating the illusion that the house is floating in mid-air.
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