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The 64-Foot Water Wall That Inspires a Thousand Selfies
The Coordinates series celebrates lesser-known locales worth visiting across the state. N 29.73617W 95.46131In Uptown Houston, at the corner of Post Oak Boulevard and Hidalgo streetIn 1981 the late real estate magnate Gerald D. Hines, the man whodeveloped such Houston icons as the Galleria, One Shell Plaza, andPennzoil Place, enlisted architects John Burgee and Philip Johnson to design a park to complement the other project they were working on together, the Transco (now Williams) Tower. Today that 64-storybuilding looms over what we now know as Gerald D. Hines Waterwall Park: a grand lawn bordered by 186 oak trees and anchored by a giant U-shaped fountain where water rolls at 11,000 gallons per minute like a vertical river over dark volcanic rock. At night, this unlikely oasis in an otherwise…The post The 64-Foot Water Wall That Inspires a Thousand Selfies appeared first on Texas Monthly.