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14-451: The palace was built in 1825–26 for Karl Anton Vogel, a manufacturer of gold and silver thread, to a plan by Franz Xaver Widmann and with façades by Leo von Klenze, who lived on the piano nobile for 25 years. Klenze had originally intended the site for the first Protestant church in Munich, but that was later built elsewhere by Johann Nepomuk Pertsch . The east front of the palace is at

28-522: A small garden structure or house built on the roof of a residence, open on one or more sides, to enjoy cooling winds and the view. They were especially popular in the 17th century and are prominent in Rome and Bologna , Italy. The main difference between a loggia and a portico is the role within the functional layout of the building. The portico allows entrance to the inside from the exterior and can be found on vernacular and small scale buildings. Thus, it

42-490: Is found mainly on noble residences and public buildings. A classic use of both is that represented in the mosaics of Basilica of Sant'Apollinare Nuovo of the Royal Palace. Loggias differ from verandas in that they are more architectural and, in form, are part of the main edifice in which they are located, while verandas are roofed structures attached on the outside of the main building. A "double loggia" occurs when

56-404: Is only partial, with the upper part usually supported by a series of columns or arches . An overhanging loggia may be supported by a baldresca . From the early Middle Ages , nearly every Italian comune had an open arched loggia in its main square, which served as a "symbol of communal justice and government and as a stage for civic ceremony". In Italian architecture , a loggia is also

70-526: The Odeonsplatz. Around 1850, the building was extended to the west. From 1878 the building belonged to Princes Alfons and Ludwig Ferdinand of Bavaria, from whom its older names are derived. Ludwig Ferdinand had it remodelled, and around 1900 the façade on Wittelsbacherplatz was embellished with arched doorways and a balcony. The building was badly damaged in World War II . After reconstruction, it

84-591: The corresponding French term, bel étage ) is the architectural term for the principal floor of a palazzo . This floor contains the main reception and bedrooms of the house. The German term is Beletage (meaning "beautiful storey", from the French bel étage ). Both date to the 17th century. The piano nobile is usually the first floor (in European terminology; second floor in American terms) or sometimes

98-399: The design. Loggia In architecture , a loggia ( / ˈ l oʊ dʒ ( i ) ə / LOH -j(ee-)ə , usually UK : / ˈ l ɒ dʒ ( i ) ə / LOJ -(ee-)ə , Italian: [ˈlɔddʒa] ) is a covered exterior gallery or corridor, often on an upper level, sometimes on the ground level of a building. The corridor is open to the elements because its outer wall

112-496: The family of the house when no honoured guests were present. Above that floor would often be an attic floor containing staff bedrooms. In Italy, especially in Venetian palazzi , the floor above the piano nobile is sometimes referred to as the " secondo piano nobile " (second principal floor), especially if the loggias and balconies reflect those below on a slightly smaller scale. In those instances and occasionally in museums,

126-555: The head of a short unnamed street which branches off the Odeonsplatz, between the Odeon and the Palais Leuchtenberg , which Klenze had previously designed with identical exteriors, so that on that side the three form an ensemble. This was originally the main façade of the building, designed by Klenze with a projecting central bay and a balcony above the main entrance, and with details echoing his Bazar building directly across

140-585: The most obvious feature of the piano nobile . In England and Italy , the piano nobile is often reached by an ornate outer staircase, which avoided for the floor's inhabitants of the need to enter the house by the servant's floor below. Kedleston Hall is an example of this in England, as is Villa Capra "La Rotonda" in Italy. Most houses contained a secondary floor above the piano nobile , which contained more intimate withdrawing and bedrooms for private use by

154-420: The principal piano nobile is described as the primo piano nobile to differentiate it. The arrangement of floors continued throughout Europe as large houses continued to be built in the classical style. The arrangement was designed at Buckingham Palace as recently as the mid-19th century. Holkham Hall , Osterley Park and Chiswick House are among the innumerable 18th-century English houses that employed

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168-768: The sales contract with the prince's heirs. Those leading institutions of Siemens still today reside in this house. A staircase was added on the Wittelsbacherplatz side in 1968. The building and vast adjacent new wings, occupying the whole block between Finken Str., Kardinal Doepfner Str. and Oskar-von-Miller Ring, including the SiemensForum München , underwent thorough renovation until 2016. 48°08′38″N 11°34′35″E  /  48.14389°N 11.57639°E  / 48.14389; 11.57639 Piano nobile Piano nobile ( Italian for "noble floor" or "noble level", also sometimes referred to by

182-717: The second storey and contains major rooms, located above the rusticated ground floor containing the minor rooms and service rooms. The reasons were so that the rooms above the ground floor would have finer views and to avoid the dampness and odours of the street level. That is especially true in Venice , where the piano nobile of the many palazzi is especially obvious from the exterior by virtue of its larger windows and balconies and open loggias . Examples are Ca' Foscari , Ca' d'Oro , Ca' Vendramin Calergi and Palazzo Barbarigo . Larger windows than those on other floors are usually

196-423: Was rented in 1949 to Siemens & Halske , a predecessor of Siemens AG, who initially used it for their motor pool and casino business. After Prince Ludwig Ferdinand died in 1949, the cousins Hermann von Siemens and Ernst von Siemens , then chairman and CEO of their company, decided to buy it for the company's headquarters, as official seat of the management board and the supervisory board, and in 1957 finalized

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