[8] Over the years, she went on to design
other public fountains and became known in San Francisco as the «fountain lady».
Not exact matches
Tsui sets his avoidance dances in confined spaces (tiny apartments, backstage dressing rooms), but To's are set out in the open: a
fountain in a
public park, a street corner, a sidewalk (a similarly choreographed scene plays out as well early in Romancing in Thin Air, itself a kind of compendium of all of To's romantic comedies, where Sammi Cheng and Louis Koo wander outside the grounds of the hotel, oblivious to each
others» presence despite occupying the same film frame).
Its historical center, composed of squares, neighborhoods, churches, houses, streets, stairways, ornamental
fountains, as well as of
public and private buildings, displays a harmonious combination of three time periods, in which the Plaza de Armas (Main Square), the Cathedral, Hatun Rumiyoq Street (Twelve Angle Stone), the Temple of the Qorikancha, the city's churches and colonial mansions, along with the craftsmen's neighborhood of San Blas stand out, among
other attrations of what was the capital city of the Incan Empire called the Tawantinsuyu.
Asawa has since done several
other public works, including a 1976
fountain for San Francisco's Japantown and a 1996 bas - relief for a San José memorial honoring the suffering of Japanese Americans interned during the war.
Other celebrated
public works include Crown
Fountain in Chicago's Millennium Park and Breathing at the BBC Broadcasting Tower in London.
Other public projects completed in 2010 are Journey Home for Grand Rapids, Garden of Evidence for Scottsdale, Arizona, Arriving Home for Chicago, Still Dancing for Toronto, Pathways to Everywhere for Calgary, Radiant
Fountain for Houston, and Paintbrush Gateway for Las Vegas.
As Cardone notes, «It can be used in applications where neon can't, such as in water
fountains, landscaping and
other places that are accessible to the
public where you don't have to worry about breakage.