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In October 2005, a piece of public art incorporating water, 14 Pieces, situated on the forecourt of the South Australian Museum. Created by artists Angela and Hossein Valamanesh and commissioned by the City of Adelaide, it replaced the Lavington Bonython fountain that had occupied the site from 1965. Its form is based on the vertebrae of an extinct marine reptile, the...
The Abai Square (Kazakh: Абай алаңы) is a city square in Almaty, Kazakhstan. It is named after the Kazakh poet and enlightener Abai Qunanbaiuly whose monument is located in the middle. The square features a public garden and a number of fountains clad in granite. The square is located in front of the Palace of the Republic and around it are the Hotel Kazakhstan, Arman...
Alman Çeşmesi (German Fountain) was constructed to commemorate the second anniversary of German Emperor Wilhelm II's visit to Istanbul in 1898. Built in Germany, then transported piece by piece and assembled in its current site in 1900. The neo-Byzantine style fountain's octagonal dome has 8 marble columns.
Th eAndrew W. Mellon Memorial Fountainis a bronze fountain sculpture by Sidney Waugh as a memorial to Andrew W. Mellon. It is located in Washington D.C., United States, just north of the National Gallery of Art, at Pennsylvania Avenue, Constitution Avenue, and 6th Street NW. The fountain is maintained by the Department of the Interior and was dedicated on May 9, 1952,...
The Anna-Seiler-Brunnen (Anna Seiler Fountain) is a fountain on Marktgasse in the Old City of Bern, Switzerland. It is a Swiss Cultural Property of National Significance and is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the Old City of Bern.
The fountain, located at the upper end ofMarktgassememorializes the founder of the first hospital in Bern. Anna Seiler [de] is re...
The Archibald Fountain, properly called the J.F. Archibald Memorial Fountain, widely regarded as the finest public fountain in Australia, is located in Hyde Park, in central Sydney, New South Wales. It is named after J.F. Archibald, owner and editor ofThe Bulletin magazine, who bequeathed funds to have it built. Archibald specified that it must be designed by a French...
The Arethuse is a fountain on the island of Ortygia in Syracuse, Sicily. The fountain is mentioned in a number of poems, for instance John Milton’sLycidas(l. 85) and his masqueArcades, as well as Alexander Pope’sThe Dunciad(Bk 2, l. 342) and William Wordsworth'sThe Prelude(Bk X, l. 1033); which they would have known from Virgil's TenthEclogue(l. 1) and The...
The Banpo Bridge is a major bridge in downtown Seoul over the Han River, South Korea, connecting the Seocho and Yongsan districts. Banpo Bridge is on top of Jamsu Bridge, forming a "double deck" bridge. When the water level rises too high, the Jamsu Bridge becomes covered with water and gets closed off. The lower deck incorporates pedestrian and bicycle paths that pro...
A 4.7 acres (1.9 ha) urban park memorializing Benjamin Banneker is located in southwest Washington, D.C., one half mile (800 m) south of the Smithsonian Institution's "Castle" on the National Mall. The park features a prominent overlook at the south end of L'Enfant Promenade and Tenth Street SW. A traffic circle, named Banneker Circle SW, surrounds the overlook. A gra...
Berczy Park is a small (3,606 square metres (0.891 acres)) park in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The distinctive feature of the park is a large, two-tier fountain with cast-iron statues of 27 dogs and a cat. The dogs are all looking up towards a large bone perched on the fountain's peak. The cat is looking north at statues of two small birds perched on the arm of...
Built from 1438 to 1440, the Big Onofrio's Fountain is a sixteen-sided container with a cupola, and was one of the ending points of the aqueduct system. Each of the sixteen sides has a unique "maskeron" design (stone-carved masked face) with the faucet projecting out of the mouth of the each design. The Big Onofrio's Fountain is located at the wetsern end of Stradun s...
City Park is a public space in the centre of Bradford, West Yorkshire. It is centred on the Grade I listed Bradford City Hall. The city park comprises three main areas (each side of the triangular City Hall site.) To the east of the City Hall is the Norfolk Gardens area. As part of the renovations to City Park an underused concrete footbridge was removed and a new bus...
Brewer Fountain is a 1868 bronze sculpture by Michel Joseph Napoléon Liénard. It stands near the corner of Park and Tremont Streets in Boston, Massachusetts, by Park Street Station.
The 22-foot-tall (6.7 m), 15,000-pound (6,800 kg) bronze fountain, cast in Paris, was a gift to the city by Gardner Brewer. It began to function for the first time on Ju...
When a city values innovation as much as San Diego does, it's sometimes difficult to find relics from the days of dusty streets and horse-drawn carriages. One prize, however, has withstood more than a century of development, even as downtown grew up around it. The 1910 Revivalist fountain in Horton Plaza Park is variously called the Broadway Fountain, Wilde Fountain o...
Buckingham Fountainis a Chicago landmark in the center of Grant Park. Dedicated in 1927, it is one of the largest fountains in the world. Built in a rococo wedding cake style and inspired by the Latona Fountain at the Palace of Versailles, it is meant to allegorically represent Lake Michigan. It operates from April to October, with regular water shows and evening colo...
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