By Blair Kamin | Chicago Tribune
It sounded like a slam dunk last year when the federal government nominated 10 Frank Lloyd Wright-designed buildings, including the Robie House in Chicago and Unity Temple in Oak Park, to a United Nations list of the world’s most significant cultural and natural sites.
Given Wright’s global cachet, you could be forgiven for thinking that getting on the list would be as easy as the U.S. men’s basketball team waltzing its way to an Olympic gold medal.
But the Wright buildings didn’t make the cut Sunday when the UNESCO World Heritage Committee placed 21 sites on its prestigious World Heritage List during a meeting in Istanbul that was disrupted by the attempted coup against the Turkish government.
