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Holiday House: By 1959, the chain boasted a hundred hotels, most owned by doctors, lawyers, and other financially capable investors. The one-
thousandth Holiday Inn broke ground in 1969. Wilson retired aschief executive of the franchise chain in 1979, after suffering a mild heart attack. Holiday Inns is still the world's largest lodging organization and one of the most recognizable franchise trademarks.
It is estimated that 90 percent of the nation's travelers have spent at least one night in a Holiday Inn.
The Lewis Glucksman Gallery by O'Donnell and Tuomey
University College Cork is the location of Ireland's most intriguing new art space.
Designed by O'Donnell + Tuomey, the Lewis Glucksman Gallery-named after the Wall Street trader and patron who owns a holiday house in the region-has been awarded a whole rake of prestigious honors, including a RIBA Stirling Prize nomination, the United Kingdom's most prestigious architecture award.
The gallery is one of the few cultural institutions that stand apart from the current worldwide crop of celebrity architect-designed extravaganzas that so often overshadow the art they are meant to house.
There are also notable examples of with an atrium (an interior court surrounded 1$ rooms). Some of these are of relatively ancie construction, such as the House with the Wood Partition, the Samnite House, and the House -5^51 Neptune and Amphitrite. Of unusual design £jt(,er the great villas in the southern part of the ci including the House of Argo, the House of t Hostelry, the House of the Mosaic Atrium, a the House of the Deer. In these houses the t ditional plan is modified. The peristilia (cole naded courtyards), the gardens, reception haj and other rooms were oriented toward the sot in order to take advantage of the view towa the sea.
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