Designed by architects Philip Johnson (who also built the Amon Carter Museum) and John Burgee and completed in 1974, the Fort Worth Water Gardens is a park like no other.Here is The Mountain, with its ten terraces of 20-inch-high steps. 
The Aerated Water Pool, has 40 spraying nozzles, set 40 feet below ground level. The park is an oasis of concrete terraces, water and greenery on the edge of downtown Fort Worth.
The Quiet Pool, which one reaches by descending a narrow stairway, is surrounded by a wall that is bathed in noiselessly cascading water. It is as inviting a pool of water as I've ever seen, although wading is strictly forbidden.
The Active Pool is about as close to boulder-hopping down a stream in the high sierras as you can get in the middle of a city, and almost as thrilling. A family was killed here in 2004. The park only reopened again in 2007 and still doesn't have a railing.
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