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2. Cascading Waterfall - Wikipedia

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   Cascading Waterfall was originally surveyed as part of the Smithsonian's Save Outdoor Sculpture! survey in 1994. The fountain, reminiscent of 16th century Italian villas, focuses primarily on thirteen large semi-circular basins forming a water cascade that overlooks the historic park. The fountains are the largest of their kind in the United ...

3. Drinking fountain - Wikipedia

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   Drinking fountains are an important source of clean water in urban infrastructure. [3] [4] [5] Many jurisdictions require drinking fountains to be wheelchair accessible (by sticking out horizontally from the wall), and to include an additional unit of a lower height for children and short adults. The design that this replaced often had one ...

4. Wallace fountain - Wikipedia

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   Wallace fountains are public drinking fountains named after, financed by and roughly designed by Sir Richard Wallace and sculpted by Charles-Auguste Lebourg. They are large cast-iron sculptures scattered throughout the city of Paris, France, mainly along the most-frequented sidewalks. A great aesthetic success, they are recognized worldwide as ...

5. Fountain - Wikipedia

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   The most famous fountains of the Renaissance, at the Villa d'Este in Tivoli, were located on a steep slope near a river; the builders ran a channel from the river to a large fountain at top of the garden, which then fed other fountains and basins on the levels below.

6. Gerald D. Hines Waterwall Park - Wikipedia

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   Plaque describing the Water Wall. The architects' design for the Waterwall was to be a "horseshoe of rushing water" opposite the Transco (now Williams) Tower. The semi-circular fountain is 64 feet (20 m) tall, to symbolize the 64 stories of the tower, and sits among 118 Texas live oak trees. The concave portion of the circle, which faces north ...

7. Salsabil (fountain) - Wikipedia

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   The name salsabil (Arabic: سلسبيل) likely derives from a Qur'anic reference. [6] The term shadirwan is also used for devices for aerating drinking water. [7] [2] However, the term shadirwan or shadirvan (Arabic: شاذروان, Persian: شادروان, Turkish: şadırvan) has slightly different uses in other cultures, such as designating a central ablutions fountain for a mosque ...