A University of Louisiana at Â鶹´«Ã½app alum is designing two fountains for a plaza under construction at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
Jim Garland, ’82, is founding principal of Fluidity Design Consultants, a Los Angeles-based water feature design and engineering firm with an international reputation.
The firm was selected to create fountains for the new David H. Koch Plaza. The four-block-long outdoor plaza along Fifth Avenue is expected to open to the public in fall 2014.
Garland’s work is showcased at VivoCity, a retail and entertainment development in Singapore; Cairo Festival City, a mixed-use urban community in Cairo, Egypt; Hearst Tower in New York City; Dubai Festival City, a residential, business and entertainment development in United Arab Emirates; and Roppongi Hills, a building complex in Tokyo.
He also designed the granite and steel water wall at the Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum on St. Mary Boulevard in Â鶹´«Ã½app.
Before founding Fluidity Design Consultants Inc. in 2002, Garland worked for WET Design. That firm created the complex water features at Bellagio resort in Las Vegas.
Garland holds a bachelor’s degree in architecture from UL Â鶹´«Ã½app and graduated from UCLA’s Master of Architecture degree program.