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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