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Buffalo Bayou Park is a 160-acre city park stretching 2.3 miles along Buffalo Bayou just west of downtown Houston, between Allen Parkway and Memorial Drive. Reopened in 2015 after a renovation, it has trails, gardens, a skate park and the Cistern, a drinking-water reservoir from 1926 with 221 concrete columns, now used for tours and art installations.
Discovery Green is a 12-acre park in downtown Houston beside the George R. Brown Convention Center, built on former parking lots and opened in 2008 to a design by Hargreaves Associates. It has Kinder Lake, lawns, gardens, a playground, dog runs, two restaurants and stages for concerts and other public events held through the year.
The Rothko Chapel is a non-denominational chapel in the Montrose neighbourhood of Houston, founded by John and Dominique de Menil and completed in 1971. Its octagonal brick interior holds fourteen dark paintings by Mark Rothko. In front stands Barnett Newman's Broken Obelisk in a reflecting pool dedicated to Martin Luther King Jr.
The Menil Collection is an art museum in Houston's Montrose neighbourhood, built for the collection of John and Dominique de Menil. Its main building by Renzo Piano opened in 1987. The 30-acre campus also holds the Cy Twombly Gallery, the Menil Drawing Institute and a Dan Flavin installation, with works from antiquity to modern art.
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston is a non-collecting museum in the Museum District, founded in 1948 to show the art of its own time. Since 1972 it has occupied a building by Gunnar Birkerts clad in corrugated steel, on Montrose Boulevard. Its two galleries host changing exhibitions of contemporary artists, together with talks and education programmes.
Hermann Park is a 445-acre public park at the southern end of Houston's Museum District, created on land left to the city by George H. Hermann in 1914. Around the Mary Gibbs and Jesse H. Jones Reflection Pool lie McGovern Lake, the Japanese Garden, the McGovern Centennial Gardens and the Houston Zoo, with a miniature railway and pedal boats.
Lakewood Church is an evangelical megachurch in Houston's Greenway Plaza, founded by John and Dodie Osteen in 1959 and led by Joel and Victoria Osteen. Since 2005 it has met in the former Compaq Center, the arena where the Houston Rockets once played, rebuilt as a sanctuary of about 16,800 seats with services in English and Spanish.
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