Fort worth water gardens

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Fort Worth Water Gardens

An architects view of the Fort Worth Water Gardens. It's a perfect place to explore and is located right downtown next to the Fort Worth Convention Centre.

FORT WORTH, Texas —Some Modernist landscapes are so futuristic, so weirdly alien in their urban surroundings, they look like sets for a sci-fi movie. In the case of the "Fort Worth Water Gardens" designed by Philip Johnson with partner John Burgee, the immense shapes of concrete that rise up topographically into a mountain and descend into a watery vortex are both a 1970s vision of public space and the setting for one of the era's dystopian films.

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Fort Worth Water Gardens

Fort Worth Water Gardens

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Fort Worth Water Garden