Accelerating Landslide Dismantles Frank Lloyd Wright Jr.'s Iconic Wayfarers Chapel
The modernist glass church in Rancho Palos Verdes faces destruction as the earth beneath it shifts at an unprecedented rate.
- Wayfarers Chapel, also known as 'The Glass Church,' was designed by Lloyd Wright and opened in 1951.
- The chapel's location on the Palos Verdes Peninsula has made it vulnerable to a rapidly accelerating landslide.
- Crews are disassembling the chapel to preserve its irreplaceable materials for future reconstruction.
- The landslide has caused severe structural damage, including cracked cornerstones and fractured glass panels.
- Reconstruction is estimated to take four years and cost at least $20 million.
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