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Fort Worth Modern Art Museum
SWA was selected to provide design services for the
new Modem Art Museum of Fort Worth located across
the street from the renowned Kimbell Art Museum.
The direction for the landscape evolved from the
architecture of Japanese architect Tadao Ando. A large
reflecting pond forms a visual base for the building and
also reflects light into the interior. A formal landscape
treatment relating to the building is used for parking
arrangement and street edges and an informal central
Texas native landscape is used on the East and North
sides of the building, responding to Ando’s “building in
nature” character for the project. SWA also designed a
rooftop sculpture garden that features Henry Moore’s
“Two-Piece Reclining Figure No. 2.”
LocationFort Worth, Texas
ClientMPA Foundation
SWA ScopeLandscape architecture services
Size11 acres
ArchitectTadao Ando Architect & Associates
Kendall/Heaton Associates, Inc. Architects