Project members won Austin's most prestigious and contested modern architectural competition to design and build a replacement pavilion and produce stone carving at cherished city landmark, Barton Springs in Zilker Park. The project is recently completed, including stone which is pending installation.
Designed and coordinated by David Santos with contribution of detail by Joe and David Perez. Engineering by Ray Ullrich and Associates and iron erection by Herrera Iron Works.
Check out Water Birds, a carved relief for the gazebo by Santos.
Tiny Vider, Texas, 1992, humiliated, had splashed across state and national news as a sort of ground zero for the Ku Klux Klan. The local economy was depressed, and the low bid (60% less than Houston) for steel bending for the Zilker Park Gazebo came from Vider. The computer generated dimensions were critical and fussy to attain. The long tubes proved to be accurately bent. Thus the desperate Chicano based team for the project, used to anti Klan action, was just able to keep in budget, and still field a masterpiece. Hopefully Vider transcends its history, and the African American community attains real equality, if not already.
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