Jackson Park Pavilion
Fountain Court
Chicago, Illinois, Chicago Park District
Max Schiff Trust

Landscape Architect:
Wolff Clements and Associates, Ltd.
Frank Clements, FASLA

Owner: Chicago Park District

Client: Max Schiff Trust

Engineers: Weber Consultants, Ltd.
Fisher + Horos Structural Engineers
General Contractors: F. H. Paschen/ SN
Neilsen, Inc.

Consultants: The Fountain People, Inc.
Schuler & Shook

The Jackson Park Pavilion was built in 1915 to provide bathing
facilities for residents of the surrounding neighborhoods. In
1997 the Chicago Park District embarked on a program to
rehabilitate the facility, which was in severe disrepair having
been abandoned long ago.

The original design of the pavilion included two open-air
courtyards that were used as men’s and women’s changing
areas. Wolff Clements and Associates was retained to redesign
one of the courtyards with funding from the Max Schiff Trust.
The new courtyard contains an interactive fountain designed
by the landscape architects that recalls a carousel. Lights,
music, and rotating water arches that reach to 10 feet in
height are arranged in three concentric rings to simulate
the experience of riding on a carousel. At the center of the
fountain is a water maze that visitors can travel through. The
courtyard was completed with the addition of trees, benches,
and special site lighting.

The project involved extensive public participation with the
design team. Construction was completed in the summer of
1999 for a total construction budget of $1,200,000.00.
-Quoted from The Illinois Chapter of the ASLA 00/01 Yearbook

Frank Clements, FASLA

The Park at City Center
Omaha, Nebraska

Architect:
Leo A Daly
8600 Indian Hills Drive
Omaha, NE 68114

Landscape Architect:
JVR and Associates
3 North Elmwood Road
Hancock, NH 03449

Sculptor/Artist:
Kent Ullberg
Kent Ullberg Studio
Corpus Christi, TX

Art Consultants:
Boody Fine Arts, Inc.
10734 Trenton Ave.
St. Louis, MO 63132
www.BootyFineArts.com

Fountain People Designer:
Wayne Scheffer

Contractors:
Mainelli Mechanical Contractors
8701 North 29th Street
Omaha, NE 68112

Ray Martin Company of Omaha
6201 Center Street
Omaha, NE 68106-2919

This fountain project was integral to a Kent Ullberg sculpture titled “Spirit of Nebraska’s Wilderness”, commissioned by First National Bank of Omaha as a part of a $300 million downtown renovation project. The sculpture is designed to represent Nebraska’s continuance from wilderness to modern day Nebraska.

The sculpture contains 58 Canadian geese along with 4 buffalo, which enter the plaza and appear to frighten some 35 geese from a pond. Numerous water jets and other water handling devices were used to create an illusion of the geese splashing from the pond as they take flight. The geese and buffalo are 1-1/4 times life size with the birds weighing some 200 pounds with an 8-foot wing span. The other geese in this sculpture appear to be flying through a roadway intersection as if circling back to the Winter Garden atrium of First National Bank Tower where several geese are featured inside. A wet wall waterfall, encompassing the boundary of the pond, portrays the streams and waterfalls found in Nebraska’s wilderness. Underwater lights, placed in and around the geese, provide dramatic night viewing, drawing one’s attention to those geese above the water and in the trees.

Plaza Fountain
Aquarium of the Pacific
Queensway Bay
Long Beach, California

Landscape Architect:
Fong-Hart-Schneider + Partners Costa
Mesa, California

Designers:
Terry Hart & David Schneider

Owner: City of Long Beach, California

Contractors:
General - Valley Crest
Concrete - Shaw and Sons
Mechanical - George Kauffman Plumbing
Electrical - Electro-Construction