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Located in the Dallas Central Business District, the Trammell Crow Center stands at a height of 686 feet (209 m) and is the sixth-tallest building in Dallas and the 18th-tallest in Texas. The building totals 1,200,000 square feet (110,000 m 2) on 50 floors and has a polished and flamed granite exterior with a garden plaza and is bordered by the ...
The San Antonio Japanese Tea Garden, or Sunken Gardens in Brackenridge Park, San Antonio, Texas, opened in an abandoned limestone rock quarry in the early 20th century. It was known also as Chinese Tea Gardens, Chinese Tea Garden Gate, Chinese Sunken Garden Gate and is listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.
Architecture in the American city of San Antonio, Texas comes from a wide variety of sources, but many of the city's buildings mostly reflect Texas' Spanish and Mexican roots; with some influence from French builders, among others. Relatively rapid economic growth since the mid twentieth century has led to a fairly wide variety of contemporary ...
Pages in category "Buildings and structures in San Antonio" The following 51 pages are in this category, out of 51 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The buildings are placed next to or over the central body of water. The garden buildings are very elaborate, with much architectural decoration. In later Japanese gardens, the buildings are well apart from the body of water, and the buildings are simple, with very little ornament. The architecture in a Japanese garden is largely or partly ...
Himeji Castle, a World Heritage Site in Hyōgo Prefecture, is the most visited castle in Japan. Japanese castles (城, shiro or jō) are fortresses constructed primarily of wood and stone. They evolved from the wooden stockades of earlier centuries and came into their best-known form in the 16th century. Castles in Japan were built to guard ...
Sydney Opera House — Sydney. The Sydney Opera House had to overcome a series of hurdles before cementing itself as the most popular performance hall. Though Danish designer Jørn Utzon’s won ...
Donated by the Government of Japan, this garden was designed by Isamu Noguchi in 1958 and installed by Japanese gardener Toemon Sano. Isamu Noguchi ( 野口 勇 , Noguchi Isamu , English: / n ə ˈ ɡ uː tʃ i / ; [ 2 ] November 17, 1904 – December 30, 1988) was an American artist, furniture designer and landscape architect whose career ...