Thursday, July 24, 2008

A fountain credited to Mexican architect Luis Barragán is quite spectacular

Made of hand-chiseled cantera stone, the fountain has been re-piped and equipped to run at variable rates of flow. Though the design is described as “Mayan-inspired” and Barragán rarely used such fussy vernacular, the Los Angeles Cultural Heritage Commission declared it “a signature project of Barragán, an architect of international fame and an architect of great importance to contemporary Mexican culture.”

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