301 Milam Street Houston, Texas, 77002, USA MARKET SQUARE PARK CERAMIC BENCHES Ceramic tile benches, designed by artist Malou Flato in 1992, line the perimeter of Market Square Park. The hand-painted ceramic tiles feature colorful, impressionistic scenes of the park as it was in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. A favorite spot for […]
Sam Houston Park 1000 Bagby Street Houston, Texas, 77030, USA THE ARMILLARY SPHERE The 72-inch Armillary Sphere has one large vertical ring representing the meridian of Houston. Attached to the inside of this ring is a wide band decorated with the signs of the zodiac and representing the celestial equator. Houston’s version of this sphere […]
301 Milam Street Houston, Texas, 77002, USA “POINTS OF VIEW” Located in Market Square Park, “Points of View” is a nearly 30-foot-tall abstract sculpture, made of pine and painted steel and mounted to a concrete base. A pinecone shape with 25 protruding wooden planks sits atop five metal legs. Modernist sculptor James Surls, a former […]
Buffalo Bayou Park 2902 Allen parkway Houston, Texas 77019 The Gus S. Wortham Memorial Fountain Affectionately known as the “Dandelion,” the Gus S. Wortham Memorial Fountain’s brass starburst of pipes sprays joggers, cyclists, and dog walkers offering a cool respite from the Houston heat. The setting has been enhanced with a semi-circular grove of trees […]
JP Morgan Chase Tower 600 Travis Street Houston, Texas, 77002, USA Joan Miró’s Personage and Birds dominates downtown Houston’s JPMorgan Chase Tower plaza like a colorful guard standing watch. The steel and cast-bronze sculpture is a representation of a person with birds in flight around the head. The body is a triangle made up of […]
Buffalo Bayou Park 3600 Memorial Drive Houston, Texas 77019 Created by internationally renowned Spanish sculptor Jaume Plensa, Tolerance comprises a grouping of seven sculptures sited in Buffalo Bayou Park at the intersection of Allen Parkway and Montrose Boulevard. The grouping was installed in 2011 to coincide with the construction of the Rosemont Bridge, which offers […]
Buffalo Bayou Park 18-3600 Allen Parkway Houston, Texas 77002 Created in 1969 and given to the city of Houston in 1979, Large Spindle Piece is a large bronze sculpture by famed master sculpture Henry Moore near Allen Parkway at Buffalo Bayou Park. Inspired by his visit to the Vatican, the twelve-foot sculpture consists of abstract curves, hard […]