2021 | Wright’s Lost Imperial Hotel - Virtual Tour

At age 26, Frank Lloyd Wright was inspired by the Phoenix Pavilion that arrived from Japan for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Jackson Park. He responded to Japan's gift to Chicago with his design of the Imperial Hotel, which was completed in 1923. It was a visit to Wright's Imperial Hotel in high school that inspired Tadao Ando to become an architect. The Phoenix Pavilion in the Garden of the Phoenix was lost to arson in 1947. The Imperial Hotel in Tokyo was lost to "progress" in 1967. In 2016, rising from the ashes of the Phoenix Pavilion is SKYLANDING by Yoko Ono - the artist's first permanent work of art by Yoko Ono in the Americas, and a marker of her place as an artist of profound international influence and her lifelong mission for world peace. In 2021, the Frank Lloyd Wright Trust completes this brilliant virtual tour of the Imperial Hotel. Thank you Frank Lloyd Wright Trust for this long awaited production!