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Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, 2002, Tadao Ando, 3200 Darnell St., Cultural District. It's coming up on ten years since Tadao Ando's stark showstopper of a building opened, but the architectural faithful are still flocking to see it. The poured concrete and glass building is composed of a series of five pavilions of cathedral proportions, with a large pond wrapping around the back of the museum. Ando acknowledges that he looked to Louis Kahn's nearby Kimbell building for inspiration.

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Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Christina Patoski

also by Kelly Klaasmeyer

"Constellation",1983, Isamu Noguchi, Kimbell Art Museum, 3333 Camp Bowie Blvd., Cultural District. Renowned sculptor Isamu Noguchi created “Constellation” in honor of his friend, Louis Kahn. Noguchi's four massive basalt rocks were sculpted and personally sited by him on the south side of the museum. Fort Worth Museum of Science and History, 2010, Legorreta + Legorreta, 1600 Gendy St., Cultural District. Bright color is a key element here, as it is in all buildings designed by the internationally acclaimed Mexican architect, Ricardo Legorreta. The giant 60-foot lantern on top of the entrance to the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History echoes the nearby Pioneer Tower at the nearby Will Rogers Memorial Auditorium. The museum's interior spaces feature indoor/outdoor courtyards that are in constant visual flux from the natural light that floods the spaces.

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