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Friday, July 15, 2011
Blog entry by Danielle Follett Chard, The Leonardo's marketing specialist.This week on our Facebook page we've been exploring a big idea: what makes a place a place? As they've been digging in to this idea, our friends and fans shared their meaningful places, their favorite cool spots, and the places of their dreams -- where they'd go if they could travel anywhere.
But our trek about the idea of place wasn't only a digital one; we did a little exploring of our own in this city we call home: Salt Lake City. Of course, we know Salt Lake has some cool things to offer, and more are coming! (Ahem. The Leo.) But there were oodles of places that piqued our curiosity: especially that explored art in interesting ways! Here are few pictures of our excursions:
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| Some of the many gorgeous buildings on Main Street. |
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| An office building in Exchange Place. |
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| Some of the amazing street art going up downtown. |
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| The fascinating Gilgal Sculpture Garden. |
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| And its famous Joseph Smith sphinx. |
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| The Matterhorn at the International Peace Gardens. |
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| Entrance to the English garden. |
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| Entrance to the Vietnam section of the garden. |
This is just the tip of the iceberg, but I was surprised to find new opportunities for discovery in simple ways in our own community. So how about you? What have you discovered in your community? And where should we go next?
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1 comments:
one of my favorite examples of "space" are the door handles on the doors of the Felt Building on Main Street, which are in shape of "F", and lead into a time warp of design space, of incrediblly tasteful art deco lobby with two adriondack chairs, just as they must have been placed by the dean of Utah architecture, Richard Kletting (Capitol, Salt Air, First Salt Palace), where besides being perfectly comfortable, when you are seated you cannot help but study the ornate ceiling above, and spectacular modern design of the elevator doors in front (Kletting must have had a special connection to this building since his offices were there when he designed the Capitol.) The Mediterranean feel of the rest of the lobby also invites exploration.
Another building that is rare is the Judge Building. Mary Judge's initials are ornately portrayed on the elevator doors, and stain glass windows throughout suggest a sanctuary feel to this otherwise commercial structure. Mary built this with money from the fortune her husband left her when he died a young 48 from lung disease acquired in getting the fortune. Mary also was a major funder of the Cathedral of the Madeline, which may have a relationship to the stained glass theme of the Judge building.
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