Philadelphia’s New Garden Blends Art, Architecture, and Nature—All While Honoring Alexander Calder

Philadelphia’s New Garden Blends Art, Architecture, and Nature—all While Honoring Alexander Calder

The 1.8-acre site blends Alexander Calder’s works with gardens by Piet Oudolf and design by Herzog & de Meuron.Photograph by Iwan Baan. Artwork by Alexander Calder © 2025 Calder Foundation, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York View of the Calder Gardens museum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.This month, Philadelphia welcomes a revolutionary new cultural destination. Opening this Sunday in the heart of the city’s museum district on the…

Look inside Calder Gardens, the city's new art space that challenges what museums can be

Calder Gardens opens Sunday at 2100 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, showcasing work by Philadelphia-born sculptor Alexander 'Sandy' Calder in a $90 million cultural destination.

Step into Calder Gardens: Philadelphia’s new art and nature experience – Metro Philadelphia

The Parkway is chock full of experiences, including a new collab between The Calder and The Barnes Foundations, featuring the former’s muse, artist Alexander Calder. Dubbed Calder Gardens, this 1.8-acre site was designed to “immerse visitors in a space that catalyzes reflection and renewal, highlighting the interplay between art, architecture, and landscape.” It’s all meant to inspire a new approach to museums and art in the Philadelphia area by…

In Philadelphia’s Calder Gardens, a Dynasty Comes Home

Herzog & de Meuron has designed a deliberately “irrational” exhibition space, set largely below the Parkway and sheathed in reflecting steel, so that the building vanishes into air (as architects like to say), mirroring the gardens around it rather than asserting its own profile. – The New Yorker

Calder Gardens is a luminous, magical spirit cave that subverts the Parkway’s monumentality

The project offers Philadelphia a new way to think about the flawed Parkway.

Herzog & de Meuron and Piet Oudolf unveil Calder Gardens in Philadelphia

The new cultural landmark presents Alexander Calder’s work in dialogue with nature and architecture, alongside the release of Jacques Herzog’s 'Sketches & Notes'. Ellie Stathaki interviews Herzog about the project.