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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.
The Downtown Aquarium is an aquarium and restaurant complex on Bagby Street in downtown Houston, opened by Landry's in 2003 on the site of the old Fire Station No. 1 and Central Waterworks. Its tanks hold more than 200 species in themed areas such as a Louisiana swamp, a sunken galleon and a rainforest, beside a white tiger habitat and a Ferris wheel.
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 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.
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.
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