Eight buildings by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright have been added to UNESCO's World Heritage List, including his iconic Fallingwater house and the Guggenheim Museum in New York.
The eight buildings were awarded heritage status by UNESCO's World Heritage Committee at a meeting on July 7 in Baku, Azerbaijan.
Alongside the Guggenheim Museum and Fallingwater, the six other listed sites are Frederick C Robie House, Illinois, Hollyhock House, California, the Herbert and Katherine Jacobs House, and Wisconsin, Unity Temple in Oak Park, along with Wright's homes and studios at Taliesin, Wisconsin, and Taliesin West, Arizona ? both of which are now home to The School of Architecture at Taliesin.
New York's Guggenheim Museum is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site Along with the eight Wright buildings, there are now 24 UNESCO World Heritage Sites in the US.
These buildings are the first pieces of modern architecture from the country to have been recognised by the international conservation body.
The Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy has been working with property owners and custodians for a decade and a half to have the 20th-century buildings officially recognised.
"This recognition by UNESCO is a significant way for us to reconfirm how important Frank Lloyd Wright was to the development of modern architecture around the world," said Barbara Gordon, executive director of the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy.
"There are nearly 400 remaining stru...