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Fortaleza Hall, designed by London-based architect Norman Foster, is the first major construction on the S.C. Johnson campus in Racine, Wis., since Frank Lloyd Wright’s Research Tower was built in 1950. Foster has struck up a dialogue with Wright, juxtaposing the new extroverted, lightweight construction with Wright’s conspicuously inward-turning architecture. In the process, Foster has addressed the underlying weakness of Wright’s buildings – their lack of views and openness – and has made the Johnson complex a more humane place to work.
