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The term "Moorish" or "neo-Moorish" sometimes also covered an appropriation of motifs from a wider range of Islamic architecture. [19] [89] This style was a recurring choice for Jewish synagogue architecture of the era, where it was seen as an appropriate way to mark Judaism's non-European origins.
The Lay Family Garden (formally known as the Lay Ornamental Garden) is a 2.2-acre (0.89 ha) garden filled with hundreds of perennials and woody plants. A garden at the south end of the property, it is a reinterpretation of the Lay Ornamental Garden, a gift from the family of Mimi Lay Hodges and Herman Lay.
Jardín del Generalife de Granada. A traditional Spanish garden is a style of garden or designed landscape developed in historic Spain. Especially in the United States, the term tends to be used for a garden design style with a formal arrangement that evokes, usually not very precisely, the sort of plan and planting developed in southern Spain, incorporating principles and elements from ...
The "Moorish" garden structures built at Sheringham Park in Norfolk, ca. 1812, were an unusual touch at the time, a parallel to chinoiserie, as a dream vision of fanciful whimsy, not meant to be taken seriously; however, as early as 1826, Edward Blore used Islamic arches, domes of various size and shapes and other details of Near Eastern Islamic architecture to great effect in his design for ...
Amarillo Botanical Gardens: Amarillo: D. A. "Andy" Anderson Arboretum (Originally named Brazos County Arboretum) College Station: Beaumont Botanical Gardens: Beaumont: Carleen Bright Arboretum: Woodway: Chihuahuan Desert Nature Center and Botanical Gardens: Fort Davis: Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden: Dallas: East Texas Arboretum and ...
The "Andalusian Garden" next to the museum was created between 1915 and 1918, during the French protectorate in Morocco, under Maurice Tranchant De Lunel. [ 5 ] [ 27 ] It is a formal garden inspired by the Moorish gardens of al-Andalus ( Andalucia ) and features a variety of trees and plants such as bougainvillea and citrus trees . [ 28 ]
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Ornamentation may be simple or dramatic. Lush gardens often appear. The style was most commonly applied to hotels, apartment buildings, commercial structures, and residences. Architects August Geiger and Addison Mizner were foremost in Florida, while Bertram Goodhue, Sumner Spaulding, and Paul Williams were in California. [citation needed]