Word: foreplaza
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Next to Halprin, Architect Philip Johnson, 71, is probably the man most interested in water as art. "Modern architecture is so dull and flat in itself that architects began looking for something to enliven it-and they remembered Rome." So says the man who added fountains to the foreplaza of New York City's Seagram Building, which he co-designed with Mies van der Rohe. Johnson's most conspicuous recent water work is Fort Worth's Water Garden. The garden has three pools, each with a different speed-sound characteristic-"quiet, fizz and rush." The "quiet" pool...
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