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A ready-to-assemble architectural model kit of SC Johnson Headquarters in Racine, Wisconsin, featuring two Frank Lloyd Wright-designed landmarks: the Administration Building, opened in 1939, and the Research Tower, opened in 1950.

Commissioned by H.F. Johnson Jr., the complex is one of Wright’s most important works of corporate architecture. At a time when office buildings were often designed as practical, repetitive containers, Wright created a workplace shaped by light, movement, structure, and material expression. The Administration Building’s low horizontal profile, curved red-brick walls, streamlined forms, and bands of Pyrex glass tubing give it a distinctive presence without relying on traditional windows.

Inside, Wright transformed the office into an organic, almost landscape-like environment. The famous Great Workroom is supported by slender dendriform columns that rise from narrow bases and spread into circular, lily pad-like concrete capitals. These columns, combined with filtered daylight from above, helped create one of the most memorable interiors in modern American architecture.

From an architectural standpoint, SC Johnson Headquarters is significant because it reimagined the corporate workplace as a human-centered environment rather than a conventional office block. Wright’s design brought together engineering ambition, organic form, and a carefully controlled experience of light. The later Research Tower extended these ideas vertically, with floors cantilevered from a central “taproot” core, making the building one of Wright’s most daring structural experiments.

Made by Little Building Co., this 1:500 scale wooden architectural model kit recreates the complex in miniature, combining the Administration Building and Research Tower into one detailed composition. The model highlights the headquarters’ low, sweeping geometry, tower form, layered rooflines, courtyards, and material contrasts.

The kit includes clear, stage-by-stage assembly diagrams. Glue is required and not supplied; Little Building Co. recommends a good-quality PVA wood glue, which dries clear and allows time to carefully reposition parts during assembly.

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