Water Features - A Photo Thread - Page 29

wafflemaster135 · #**561** Posted **Sep 15, 2021, 3:51 AM**

Water feature: New Braunfels Main Plaza Fountain
Location: New Braunfels, Texas

geomorph · #**562** Posted **Sep 15, 2021, 7:53 PM**

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Originally Posted by wafflemaster135

Water feature: New Braunfels Main Plaza Fountain
Location: New Braunfels, Texas

That looks nice, and it appears the rim of the basin is also cast iron?

geomorph · #**563** Posted **Sep 16, 2021, 7:32 PM**

Water Feature: The Palazzo at the Venetian Resort
Location: Las Vegas, Nevada

Photo taken by geomorph in 2010.

geomorph · #**564** Posted **Sep 16, 2021, 10:47 PM**

Water Feature: Lily Pond in Nelson A. Rockefeller Park
Location: New York City, New York

Photo taken by geomorph in 2007.

geomorph · #**565** Posted **Sep 17, 2021, 4:26 AM**

Water Feature: Pagoda Lake in Forest Park
Location: St. Louis, Missouri

Photo taken by geomorph in 2009.

geomorph · #**566** Posted **Sep 17, 2021, 7:30 PM**

Water Feature: UBC Wesbrook Village
Location: Vancouver, British Columbia

All photos taken by geomorph in 2017.

wafflemaster135 · #**567** Posted **Sep 17, 2021, 9:12 PM**

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Originally Posted by geomorph

That looks nice, and it appears the rim of the basin is also cast iron?

I believe it is, yeah. The fountain was installed in 1895. The city refurbished the fountain a few years after several years of disrepair, and it looks fantastic now.

geomorph · #**568** Posted **Sep 18, 2021, 4:24 AM**

Water Feature: Wortham Theater Center
Location: Houston, Texas

Photo taken by geomorph in 2010.

geomorph · #**569** Posted **Sep 18, 2021, 6:54 AM**

Water Feature: Yerba Buena Children's Garden
Location: San Francisco, California

All photos taken by geomorph in 2011.

geomorph · #**570** Posted **Sep 18, 2021, 9:27 PM**

Water Feature: Red Butte Garden
Location: Salt Lake City, Utah

Photo taken by geomorph in 2015.

bilbao58 · #**571** Posted **Sep 19, 2021, 8:19 AM**

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Originally Posted by geomorph

Water Feature: Wortham Theater Center
Location: Houston, Texas

Photo taken by geomorph in 2010.

I forgot about that one. Probably because I absolutely detest the building it’s next to.

bilbao58 · #**572** Posted **Sep 19, 2021, 8:30 AM**

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Originally Posted by geomorph

Water Feature: Hermann Park
Location: Houston, Texas

Photo taken by geomorph in 2021.

I didn’t know until recently that the columns around this fountain came from the nearby original Miller Outdoor Theatre.

https://tellepsen.com/case-studies/c...utdoor-theater

geomorph · #**573** Posted **Sep 19, 2021, 6:33 PM**

Water Feature: Gerald D. Hines Waterwall Park
Location: Houston, Texas

All photos taken by geomorph in 2021.

bilbao58 · #**574** Posted **Sep 19, 2021, 7:27 PM**

I will never understand the pedimented wall with three arches in front of that fountain. Then again, I will never understand the "crenelated" pointy parking garage behind the tower that looks like a leftover plan for the PPG Building in Pittsburgh with the glass removed. Nor will I ever understand the giant granite arch tacked onto the front of the tower. In hindsight, so much of Philip Johnson's work is a mess. He never knew how to make a tower that met the ground in a satisfactory way. AT&T in New York may have been about as close as he got. Pennzoil is definitely the closest he ever got in Houston... and it's now pretty much understood that he stole credit for that building's design from someone in his firm. The rest of his Houston towers were always best seen from a nearby freeway. That said, the beacon on "Transco" may be the best thing he ever gave Houston... that is, after they aimed it away from the windows of a couple of high rise apartment buildings in nearby Greenway Plaza.

geomorph · #**575** Posted **Sep 20, 2021, 4:41 AM**

Water Feature: Cleveland Museum of Natural History
Location: Cleveland, Ohio

All photos taken by geomorph in 2021.

Matthew · #**576** Posted **Sep 20, 2021, 12:21 PM**

Winston-Salem:
Reynolda Gardens Waterfall
Landscape Engineering: Buckenham and Miller (1911)
Landscape Architect: Thomas Sears (1915)

This is the waterfall I spoke of earlier.

Waterfalls by Susan Smith, on Flickr

waterfall by borntoleave, on Flickr

geomorph · #**577** Posted **Sep 23, 2021, 4:39 AM**

Water Feature: Tanner Fountain at Harvard University
Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts

Photo taken by geomorph in 2009.

JMKeynes · #**578** Posted **Sep 23, 2021, 3:44 PM**

It looks like Nashville is trying to build an amazing fountain.

https://fountainsofmusica.org/about/

https://fox17.com/news/local/water-f...xHHoV2PwIdVG-g

The North One · #**579** Posted **Sep 23, 2021, 4:38 PM**

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Originally Posted by bilbao58

I will never understand the pedimented wall with three arches in front of that fountain. Then again, I will never understand the "crenelated" pointy parking garage behind the tower that looks like a leftover plan for the PPG Building in Pittsburgh with the glass removed. Nor will I ever understand the giant granite arch tacked onto the front of the tower. In hindsight, so much of Philip Johnson's work is a mess. He never knew how to make a tower that met the ground in a satisfactory way. AT&T in New York may have been about as close as he got. Pennzoil is definitely the closest he ever got in Houston... and it's now pretty much understood that he stole credit for that building's design from someone in his firm. The rest of his Houston towers were always best seen from a nearby freeway. That said, the beacon on "Transco" may be the best thing he ever gave Houston... that is, after they aimed it away from the windows of a couple of high rise apartment buildings in nearby Greenway Plaza.

It's postmodern, you're not supposed to understand.

One Detroit Center meets the ground pretty well. I think that's his best work that isn't high modern, honestly.

That fountain is cool though.

geomorph · #**580** Posted **Sep 24, 2021, 12:42 AM**

Water Feature: Silverton Casino Hotel
Location: Las Vegas, Nevada

Photo taken by geomorph in 2017.