Bright Sun Cool Shade Balboa Park

I had a few hours before my flight out of San Diego and decided to spend the day at Balboa Park which is just minutes from the airport. Balboa Park... more

by Joan Carroll

Title

Bright Sun Cool Shade Balboa Park

Artist

Joan Carroll

Medium

Photograph - Digital Art

Description

I had a few hours before my flight out of San Diego and decided to spend the day at Balboa Park which is just minutes from the airport. Balboa Park is a 1,200-acre (490 ha) urban cultural park in San Diego, California, United States. Named for the Spanish maritime explorer Vasco Nunez de Balboa, the park hosted the 1915-16 Panama-California Exposition and 1935-36 California Pacific International Exposition, both of which left architectural landmarks. Here is a fairly restrained and simple arcade where I took refuge from the midday sun. But don't be deceived! The architects of the original park chose to "use the styles of highly ornamented Spanish Baroque architecture with the Spanish Colonial architecture created during the Spanish colonization era in New Spain-Mexico and the lower Americas, with Churrigueresque and Plateresque detailing "updating" the already popular Mission Revival Style to create the Spanish Colonial Revival Style." Wow! what a combination that is! The park and its historic Exposition buildings were declared a National Historic Landmark and National Historic Landmark District in 1977, and placed on the National Register of Historic Places.

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March 16th, 2015