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Entries in architecture (4)

Wednesday
Feb152012

Secrets and Highlights of the Isabella Stewart Gardiner Museum

(The Courtyard, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum)Janet Ramin - What do you get when you mix a Venetian palace, priceless artwork, a female patron, and a daring art robbery?  If you answered the Guggenheim Museum in Venice, you’re only partially right, but if you came up with the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, then you’ve hit bull’s-eye! These ingredients make for a thrilling history, maybe even for a movie. The Gardner Museum is back in the news with a reopening this past January after going through renovations and the addition of a new wing by Italian architect Renzo Piano - see below. The original building is seen at the right corner. 

(New Wing of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum)Modeled after a 15th-century Venetian palazzo, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum has always been considered a jewel among small museums, mainly for its masterpiece collection but also because of its beautiful, intimate and atmospheric space. It was also infamous for a dramatic art heist, still unsolved to this day. If you’re hunting for a Degas or a Vermeer painting, you may still uncover a hidden treasure out there!

(postcard of original Gardner Palazzo)The Gardner Museum is also one of the very few museums started by

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Sunday
Nov202011

The Biltmore

(Biltmore Hotel - Front)Janet Ramin - As a young boy, George Merrick traveled to Spain, explored medieval castles, towers, Moorish courtyards and pools, and developed a passion for them. Fast forward several years later, Merrick becomes a real estate developer and teams up with hotel magnate, John McEntee Bowman, to create a grand hotel, a destination magnet for the rich and famous. The Biltmore Hotel is born.

As you curve around the lush rolling green park, a Moorish tower arises and a Mediterranean palazzo appears majestically to fill out the horizon. For a moment, you may imagine you’re in Italy or on the plains of Spain but then the palm trees appear – snapping you out of the dream – and back to Coral Gables, Florida. Merrick wanted to recreate his childhood haunts and hired architect Leonard Schultze to achieve his dream. 

Using the Giralda tower in Seville, Spain as inspiration, Scultze created the bell tower of the Biltmore and centered it in the palazzo-style hotel building. In the center of the hotel is

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