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A Siesta Key estate has been listed for $22 million taking over the top spot as the most expensive property for sale in Sarasota- Manatee in 2023.

A penthouse in this upscale condo tower was listed for $65M in 2016. It was the most expensive condo listing to date in Florida. (It didn’t sell.)

UF football has been a big deal since Steve Spurrier’s era, but Ben Hill Griffin Stadium is loud for reasons beyond the enthusiasm of the spectators.

The modern house on Orange Avenue has its haters, but plenty of Sarasotans loved it from the start.

For me, Southside School is more than just a pretty Mediterranean Revival building designed by one of the region’s most versatile early architects.

Built in 1883 to attract tourists and expanded over the next 47 years, these five buildings make up one of the state’s most beloved historic hotels.

Gasparilla Inn was built in 1911 in a vernacular form by the Boca Grande Land Co. and enlarged in 1913 with drawings by architect Francis J. Kennard.

The simple box clad in emerald green ceramic tiles has won several design awards.

The Elling Eide Center, a private research archive and preserve, sits on 70 acres facing Little Sarasota Bay that has been owned by the Eide family since the 1930s. Located near U.S. 41, Palmer Ranch and several shopping centers between Sarasota and Venice, it was long sought by developers. Elling Eide resisted those efforts; he also had a big battle with Sarasota County over zoning, and even ran unsuccessfully for a County Commission seat. A noted Sinologist who died in 2012, Eide amassed what...

Santiago Calatrava is a controversial architect, somewhat in the mold of Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright. A Ph.D. engineer as well as an architect, he is a designer of the first order, creating neo-modernist sculptures that also serve as buildings. A Calatrava bridge, museum or train station, quite often inspired by designs found in nature, can turn an otherwise nondescript locale into a tourist attraction. A bright star on the architectural map. More Florida buildings I love: Now in his mi...