Discovery Green 1500 McKinney St Houston, TX 77010 (713) 400-7336 Monument Au Fantome by Jean Dubuffet The large free-form red-white-blue sculpture on Avenida de las Americas is the park’s most well-known artwork and one of Houston’s great treasures. Its title means “Monument to the Phantom” or imaginary city in French. There are seven individual forms […]
1400 Memorial Drive Houston, Texas, 77019, USA HOUSTON POLICE OFFICERS MEMORIAL The Houston Police Officers Memorial serves as a public recognition of the sacrifices made by Houston police officers as they carry out their duties, and, especially, those who have died in the line of duty. The monument serves as the location of an annual […]
615 Prairie Street Houston, Texas, 77002, USA David Adickes’s “Virtuoso,” Virtuoso has the distinction of being the first larger-than-life sculpture to emerge from the hands of artist and sculptor David Adickes. In the early 1980s, he created the 36-foot tall, 21-ton sculpture on a commission from the developer of Lyric Centre, the office building behind it. […]
Root Memorial Square 1400 Clay Street Houston, Texas, 77002, USA HERITAGE LANTERNS AT ROOT MEMORIAL SQUARE Located in the northeast corner of Root Memorial Square Park, these five stainless steel sculptures are lit from the inside with LED lights that change colors. The lanterns, which range from five to seven feet tall, are built in […]
Wortham Center Theater 501 Texas Avenue Houston, Texas 77002 SEVEN WONDERS The public art at Buffalo Bayou’s Sesquicentennial Park is hard to miss. Seven 70-foot-tall pillars, known as the “Seven Wonders,” flank the park’s Promenade and Preston Avenue Bridge. Each column, designed by Mel Chin, contains 150 drawings, created by 1,050 local schoolchildren. With the […]
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 […]
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 […]