Location: Racine, Wisconsin, USA.

Architect: Foster + Partners.

Fortaleza Hall is a celebration of the 15,000-mile flight made to Brazil by H.F. Johnson Jr in 1935, in search of a sustainable source of natural wax. It is a tribute to the pioneering fifth generation S C Johnson family company and is located adjacent to Wright’s celebrated ‘Johnson Wax’ office building and research tower. H.F. Johnson Jr had travelled in a Sikorsky-38 amphibious plane and some sixty-three years later, his son Sam retraced that flight in a replica of the Carnaúba plane to complete a historic family journey. Fortaleza Hall provides a permanent home for the historic replica aircraft and tells the story of its flight, while the Community Building gives the campus a new social heart with a range of staff facilities including restaurants, shops and a gymnasium. The highly transparent Fortaleza Hall displays the aircraft to the campus, while the Community Building provides a more solid visual counterpoint. The two buildings are linked by a glazed entrance atrium and an undercroft connects the space to the matrix of tunnels that form the principal communications network through the campus. It was opened in 2010.