marin
        civic center


San Rafael is also the home of the Marin Civic Center, one of the last buildings designed by
the renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright, and, if I'm not mistaken, the only public building
he ever designed.  It's garish, ridiculous, and quite lovely. 

Legend says that on moonlit nights, when the fog sneaks in over the hills in just the right way,
you can see the ghostly figure of Frank Lloyd Wright rising over the horizon to pee on the ghost of
Mies van der Rohe.    


  marin civic center



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