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It’s been 25 years since former Philadelphia Mayor Ed Rendell made a cold call to Alexander S.C. Rower, head of the Calder Foundation in New York. He offered to build a museum dedicated to the work of his grandfather, Alexander Calder, the innovative modernist sculptor who invented the mobile.
They reached a deal and Philly officials chose a site on the Ben Franklin Parkway, benefactors pledged money, and an architect was chosen. But then...nothing. And in 2005, the project was declared dead., philanthropists plan to go to the Art Commission next week with a new $50 million concept for the site, rebranded as the “Calder Gardens.” It’s more of a sculpture garden than a formal museum.The exhibition spaces will be almost entirely underground in a series of chambers and sunken gardens.
After passing through the pavilion lobby, visitors will descend into a partially submerged gallery with 35-foot ceilings. The room, called the Tall Gallery, can accommodate the biggest of Calder’s works. It will also offer views into the two sunken gardens, which will bookend the room. The architects carved out tiny exhibits in what would normally be considered throwaway space: one under a curving a staircase and another in a rocky outcrop in the so-called Vestige Garden.
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