Crown Center, fountains at Crown Center

Rømer was employed by the French government: Louis XIV made him tutor for the Dauphin, and he also took part in the construction of the magnificent fountains at Versailles.

They must need but little water, if any at all, as their ' towns ' are often, indeed generally, found in the midst of the most arid plains — unless we suppose they dig down to subterranean fountains.

He sought to replace Coca-Cola at his stores ' fountains after Coke refused to give him a discount on syrup.

It made plans to erect a lot of statues, fountains, bridges, and museums at a cost of about € 500 million.

The city was noted for its tree lined streets, numerous fountains, and pleasant parks, at least until the recent tree-cutting campaigns initiated by local government.

* Listing and photographs of fountains at the Historic American Buildings Survey

Water was distributed at the palace by gravity feed through terracotta pipes to fountains and spigots.

Decorated with statues and fountains, the area was named Place Louis XV to honor the king at that time.

The obelisk is flanked on both sides by fountains constructed at the time of its erection on the Place.

Le Nôtre's garden was the dominant structure of the great complex, stretching nearly a mile and a half ( 3 km ), with a balanced composition of water basins and canals contained in stone curbs, fountains, gravel walks, and patterned parterres that remains more coherent than the vast display Le Nôtre was to create at Versailles.

From the year of Victoria's Golden Jubilee in 1887 until 1921 it stood in the Market Place, where it had two functions, to provide light to the Market Place and to provide drinking water from two fountains at the bottom.

The water is available free for drinking at several fountains in the downtown area.

The plans include building a main road with buildings at both sides, and accented with street lamps, fountains, plants, flowers and much more.

A major focus of his career was the remodelling of older country houses, his first major commission was the transformation of Henry Holland's Trentham Hall, Staffordshire ( 1834 – 40 ) it was remodelled in the Italianate style with a large tower ( a feature Barry often included in his country houses ), Barry also designed the Italianate gardens, with parterres and fountains, largely demolished in 1912, only a small portion of the house consisting of the porte-cochère, with a curving corridor and the stables are still standing, although the gardens are undergoing a restoration, additionally the belvedere from the top of the tower survives as a folly at Sandon Hall.

He remodelled Dunrobin Castle, Sutherland, Scotland ( 1844 – 48 ) in Scots Baronial Style for George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 2nd Duke of Sutherland for whom he had remodelled Trentham Hall, due to a fire in the early 20th century little of Barry's interiors survive at Dunrobin, the gardens with their fountains and parterres are also by Barry.

Barry remodelled Trafalgar Square ( 1840 – 45 ) he designed the north terrace with the steps at either end, and the sloping walls on the east and west of the square, the two fountain basins are also to Barry's design, although Edwin Lutyens re-designed the actual fountains ( 1939 ).

The Eiffel Tower and the fountains at night

It portrays a group at 1. 5 times life size, running through a watercourse, with fountains giving the effect of water splashed by the animals ' hooves.

Two short syllables are added at the beginning, and " founts " is lengthened to " fountains.

The site of the plaza and fountains will be a work site for the Crossrail and station expansion works at Tottenham Court Road station.

His later works, after he resigned his professorship in 1892, were more in the free and ardent manner of his early days — imaginative landscapes, castles in Spain, and farms in Burgundy, etchings like the series of " The Triumph of Death ," and the sculptured fountains for the gardens of the duke of Portland at Welbeck.

In one of his essays aimed at the common person he wrote, " Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home ; that wilderness is a necessity ; and that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life.

) This limit was a concern to irrigation projects, mine drainage, and decorative water fountains planned by the Duke of Tuscany, so the Duke commissioned Galileo to investigate the problem.

* The four fountains ( Quattro Fontane ) with reclining river gods ( 1588 – 93 ) commissioned by Pope Sixtus V.

This fountain was one of a series of fountains he designed and commissioned in a belief that easy access to cool drinking water would keep people from consuming alcohol.

He also commissioned the French Jesuit Michel Benoist, to design a series of timed waterworks and fountains complete with underground machinery and pipes, for the amusement of the Imperial family.

Pirro Ligorio, who was responsible for the iconographic programs worked out in the villa's frescos, was also commissioned to lay out the gardens for the villa, with the assistance of Tommaso Chiruchi of Bologna, one of the most skilled hydraulic engineers of the sixteenth century ; Chiruchi had worked on the fountains at Villa Lante.

On December 31, 1967, Derek recruited his wife to operate one of his cameras after he had been commissioned by daredevil Evel Knievel to film his motorcycle jump of the fountains at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas.

He commissioned the Jesuit priest Father Castiglione, who was trained in engineering, to build fountains for his garden similar to those he had heard about in the gardens at Versailles.

In March 2012, downtown Kansas City was selected as one of America's best downtowns by Forbes magazine for its rich culture in arts, numerous fountains, upscale shopping and various local cuisine – most notably barbecue.

The associated Country Club District to the south includes the Sunset Hill and Brookside neighborhoods, and is traversed by Ward Parkway, a landscaped boulevard known for its statuary, fountains and large, historic homes.

Kansas City has of spacious boulevards and parkways, 214 urban parks, 49 ornamental fountains, 152 ball diamonds, 10 community centers, 105 tennis courts, five golf courses, five museums and attractions, 30 pools, and 47 park shelters, all overseen by the city's Parks and Recreation department.

To date, a complete map of the area has been made, including not only the Ash Altar and temenos, but also two fountains, including the Hagno fountain mentioned by Pausanias, the hippodrome, the stadium, a building that was probably a bathhouse, the xenon ( hotel ), a stoa, several rows of seats, and a group of statue bases.

Megargel was unsuccessful, and soon Pepsi's assets were purchased by Charles Guth, the President of Loft Inc. Loft was a candy manufacturer with retail stores that contained soda fountains.

The Shalimar Gardens ( Lahore ) | Shalimar Gardens, comprising over four-hundred fountains, were built by the Mughal emperor.

Other projects include the new district near the Santa Gilla pond ( Piazza Santa Gilla ), a luxurious beauty-center on the Poetto beach, where now is the old abandoned " Marino " hospital, the new university campus, designed by Paulo Mendes da Rocha, and the new " Parco della musica ", a great park with an amphitheatre and fountains, channels and water-games, between T-hotel and the Civic Theatre ; the latter will be finished by the end of the year, while the other works will be finished by 2010 – 2011.

In the Island of Mozambique, the hospital, a majestic neo-classical building constructed in 1877 by the Portuguese, with a garden decorated with ponds and fountains, was for many years the biggest hospital south of the Sahara.

Still in the 6th Century, bishop San Martín de Braga complained in his work De correctione rusticorum about the attachment of the Galician peasants to the pre-Christian cults: " Many demons, who were expelled from the heavens, settled in the sea, in the rivers, fountains and forests, and have come to be worshipped as gods by ignorant people.

The Cours Mirabeau is a wide thoroughfare, planted with double rows of plane-trees, bordered by fine houses and decorated by fountains.

Two fountains, which were fed by the sacred spring, still survive.

Their arrangement, on a north-south axis aligned with the Obelisk of Luxor and the Rue Royale, and the form of the fountains themselves, were influenced by the fountains of Rome, particularly Piazza Navona and the Piazza San Pietro, both of which had obelisks aligned with fountains.