{"id":6899,"date":"2011-05-06T18:19:41","date_gmt":"2011-05-06T18:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=6899"},"modified":"2011-05-06T18:19:41","modified_gmt":"2011-05-06T18:19:41","slug":"white-elephant-museum-in-granada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/white-elephant-museum-in-granada\/","title":{"rendered":"White elephant museum in Granada"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6900\" style=\"width: 785px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/caja_granada_memoria.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6900\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/caja_granada_memoria.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"caja_granada_memoria\" width=\"775\" height=\"359\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/caja_granada_memoria.jpg 775w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/caja_granada_memoria-300x139.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/caja_granada_memoria-768x356.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/caja_granada_memoria-624x289.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 775px) 100vw, 775px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6900\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">What should this white elephant be used for?<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It is nice for Granada to have a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.memoriadeandalucia.com\/opencms\/export\/sites\/default\/CajaGranada\/recursos\/documentos\/DossierIngles.pdf\">Museum of Memory<\/a> designed by Alberto Campo Baeza. The idea for the Cultural CajaGRANADA Memoria de Andaluc\u00eda was to mimic the much un-loved courtyard of the Palace of Charles V in the Alhambra, &#8216;to which it pays aesthetic tribute&#8217;. The only review on Tripadvisor says &#8216;I&#8217;d rather have a tour of  Granada see something interesting&#8217;. The design has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecitytraveler.com\/2010\/03\/granada\/\">a sculptural quality<\/a> but, in sharp contrast to the old buildings on the Alhambra plateau ignores garden and landscape considerations. History should speak. This is a dumb project &#8211; can anyone think of a better use for the building? I suggest healthcare. They should have wrapped the museum round a beautiful garden cafe. Images courtesy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/landahlauts\/\">Landahlaut<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/joseag\/\">Jos\u00e9 Agust\u00edn<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is nice for Granada to have a Museum of Memory designed by Alberto Campo Baeza. The idea for the Cultural CajaGRANADA Memoria de Andaluc\u00eda was to mimic the much un-loved courtyard of the Palace of Charles V in the Alhambra, &#8216;to which it pays aesthetic tribute&#8217;. The only review on Tripadvisor says &#8216;I&#8217;d rather [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6899"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}