Beautiful frozen girls dancing in Central Park New York
Fountains look their best when they interact with climatic conditions: frost, wind, water, sun etc. But of all these things, I like the effects of frost and sun the best.
If architecture is frozen music then frozen music is pure poetry.
(Lovely photograph of Undermeyer Fountain in Central Park NY courtesy Ralph Hockens)
Butchart Fountain works well because it occupies a space - instead of trying to create a space
- A fountain needs to occupy a space.
- Fountains are rarely capable of creating their own spaces.
The famous fountain in Buchart Gardens (in British Columbia, Canada) illustrates the point. It has an excellent place to sit. Many other fountain designers have achieved much less admired results, often with more water, because they have not followed the principle of creating the place before they design the fountain.
(image courtesy Martin leBar)
