Detail View: Archivision Base to Module 9: Fountain of Warsaw

Preferred Title: 
Fountain of Warsaw
Alternate Title: 
Varsovie Fontaine
Image View: 
Detail, one of a series of cascading pools, facade of Palais de Chaillot in background
Creator: 
Roger Henri Expert (French architect, 1882-1955)
Location: 
site: Paris, Île-de-France, France
Location Note: 
Palais de Chaillot, Jardins du Trocadero
GPS: 
+48.860833+2.29
Date: 
1937 (creation)
Cultural Context: 
French
Style Period: 
Twentieth century
Work Type 1: 
fountain
Work Type 2: 
garden
Classification: 
landscape architecture
Material: 
concrete; stone; bronze
Technique: 
construction (assembling); gardening
Measurements: 
93,930 m2 (area, garden)
Subjects: 
architecture; City planning; Exposition internationale (1937 : Paris, France); Fountains; world's fairs
Description: 
Proposals to rebuild Gabriel Davioud?s Palais du Trocadéro for the Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne (1937) in Paris resulted in Carlu's design for the Palais de Chaillot (with Louis Hippolyte Boileau and Leon Azéma (1888-1978)), enclosing within its two curved wings parts of the original structure. The main feature, called the Fountain of Warsaw, is a long basin, or water mirror, with twelve fountain-creating columns of water 12 meters high; twenty four smaller fountains four meters high; and ten arches of water. At one end, facing the Seine, were twenty powerful water cannon, able to project a jet of water fifty meters. Above the long basin were two smaller basins, linked with the lower basin by cascades flanked by 32 sprays of water four meters high. These fountains are the only exposition fountains which still exist today, and still function as they once did. The present garden has an area of 93,930 m2, and was created for the Exposition, also the design of architect Rog
Image Description: 
"Taureau et Daim" (Bull and Deer) by Paul Jouve visible on left.
Collection: 
Archivision Addition Module Six
Identifier: 
1A1-ER-VF-A8
Rights: 
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.