The Ride: Fannin South Park & Ride                  

The Ride, a public art project at the Fannin South Station & Park and Ride facility, is a fusion between contemporary folk art and modern architecture.  These varying styles of design have juxtaposed their respective creative processes to develop a work of art with function and form, The Ride. 

 Located at the northeast corner of Fannin and West Belfort Avenue makes The Ride a neighbor to one of Houston’s oldest and most renowned amusement parks.  Across Fannin and northwest of The Ride you see the twists and turns of roller coasters and the wild looping thrill rides of Astroworld Ò.  

 From the park we drew inspiration to design artistic enhancements for The Ride.  These creative elements include:

 ·                    Fluidly designed colored tile mosaic murals for cladding of the light rail canopy columns.

·                    An earth toned, kayak brown, for the color of the light rail canopy structural steel leaving the columns standing along the center of the platform like palm trees along a beachfront.

·                    Green tinted glass spanning the length of the light rail glass canopy.

·                    Green and pewter Terrazzo that creates islands of color along platform surface.

·                    A ribbon of red tile mosaics inlayed between and throughout the light rail platform Terrazzo surface, which recreates the lines of the roller coasters and thrill rides next door.  

·                    Flowing colored forms that are incorporated into the leaning rails, which span the length of the light rail platform.

·                    Trees, shrubs and native flowers that create islands of nature and color throughout the park and ride facility, extending the design elements of the station into the surrounding landscape.

 Visitors and travelers will be in for a ride as they experience the future of public art and Houston’s light rail transit at The Ride.

The artistic enhancements for The Ride, at Fannin South Park & Ride Line Section 1,  were designed and developed by Reginald Adams.  The architects for the station design team are PowersBrown Architecture and the landscape rendering was provided by Clark Condon & Associates..  The light rail station is planned for completion 2004.

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