During his lifetime, architect Frank Lloyd Wright twice intervened to prevent the demolition of his Robie House, a 1910 Chicago building that many scholars regard as pivotal in the development of his style. Decades after those efforts, design firm zunpartners has earned a Webby award for another effort to preserve the building, using a special digital restoration process that lets Internet users view the house as Wright originally designed it — through the aid of technology that one usually associates with Star Wars.

The award-winning Web site, run by the Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust, features a full-color tour of the first floor of the house in which digital alterations were made to depict the original layout and custom furniture that Wright envisioned for it. A specially designed dinner table that has since gone missing was digitally recreated using composite images of the original, and four Wright table lanterns, also lost, were recreated using the one extant example.

In a remarkable feat of digital trickery, zunpartners even studied the glow of period light bulbs, ensuring that every nook will be lit with the color and intensity that the famously exacting architect intended. The result just may rival the condition of the actual building when it reopens to the public following a massive $11 million restoration effort.