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'Beauty available to all': groundbreaking US buildings added to Unesco list

A group of eight projects by the architect Frank Lloyd Wright are now included on the list of 1,000 heritage sites around the world
Taliesin West was the architect Frank Lloyd Wright’s winter home and school in the desert from 1937 until his death in 1959 at the age of 91. Photograph: Jill Richards Photography

A villa in Los Angeles and a church near Chicago have been granted the same level of cultural recognition as the pyramids of Giza and the Great Barrier Reef, and have been declared Unesco World Heritage sites.

They are part of a group of eight projects by the architect Frank Lloyd Wright to be added to

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