Fluidity Design Consultants

✨Last Days to RSVP for the Fountain Safari book lecture in Baltimore, MD Tuesday 2/17 at 5:30pm! and are SO excited to see you all for a thought provoking lecture on the history of water features around the world.

✨This event is free✨ Please RSVP at the link in bio ⛲️

🚗Street parking is limited, please ride share if you can!

🍷 We will have charcuterie and wine at 5:30pm, lecture begins at 6pm. Looking forward to seeing you all in just a few days!

We were pleased to learn that Downtown Cary Park was recognized with the top honor in Urban Design in Fastcompany’s Innovation by Design awards. Fluidity was pleased to play our part in the design of several new water features for the park and the restoration of the existing Frantz Square water feature. Congratulations to the team at OJB Landscape Architecture and all who collaborated on the project.
Visit our story for a link to the full article.

We are honored to learn that the Helios Education Foundation received Outstanding Award for Built Commercial Landscape Design from World Landscape Architecture.

Fluidity joined the team with Colwell Shelor to complete the central water feature, an oculus feature which connects the roof to the parking area via a cylindrical composition of stainless steel chains that guide the downward-flowing water into a pair of circular pools.

“The site and building work in partnership to blur the lines between landscape architecture and architecture, significantly reduce potable water and energy use, provide opportunities for enhanced educational rethinking and improved mental health and wellbeing.” - Colwell Shelor

Fountain Appreciation Friday ⛲️

Designed by prolific Australian Architect Robert Woodward, the fountain in the center of the court of the New South Wales Parliament building was built in 1983. Water Flows between the strands at the apex, stretching outward in all directions to fall from the tips of the bowed metal strands and rain gently into the pool. The reflection pool conveys the action more than anything else, with low waves flowing outward from the sculpture to the infinity-edged perimeter.

We are pleased to offer this invitation to join us for a special book talk, where Jim Garland will share images and ideas from his recent publication, Fountain Safari - an encyclopedic overview of 21 centuries of world-wide water feature design evolution.

The materials will be presented at Longwood Gardens... in the beautiful, new event space, The Fountain Room.

In the evening of the same day, a
Fireworks and Fountains Show will
be held at the Main Fountain

Saturday, August 9, 10:30-11:30am
Longwood Gardens

Book talk is free with garden admissions, registration is required.

A master class in water design.

Longwood Gardens has invited acclaimed fountain designer, Jim Garland, to teach an online lecture series on how to design with water exploring key design principles including space analysis, purpose, design, engineering, and construction. Thursday evenings from August 7 - September from 6-8pm Eastern.

Please join us as Jim provides an overview of Fountain Safari, surveying brilliant works built over twenty-one centuries upon the land areas of five continents.

A brief overview of a recently published book, kindly hosted by RIOS — and shared with the LA design community.

July 22nd
6:30 pm
RIOS Los Angeles
3101 W Exposition PL

*Look for the yellow door rideshare preferred
*Light refreshments will be served

Great water features are anatomically organized into synergetic systems of water display, where each element interacts meaningfully with each other. All expressions are of significant quality, functioning together in harmony. It is from this synergetic complexity that water design becomes rich, efficient, and alive.

We build water features to express water’s availability to us and to celebrate the life it supports. The human spirit is a great and sensitive thing, and water expression ties directly into that realm of experience.

Summer is the high season for interactive water features!

Prospect Park in Brooklyn NY. An outdoor recreational ice-skating rink transforms into a plaza with an interactive water feature in the summer.

Nancy Best in Dallas, TX . A sculptural, interactive, musical fountain activates the east end of Klyde Warren Park, in Dallas’s downtown Arts District.

Palm Springs Downtown Park in Palm Springs, CA. An urban oasis in the desert with shade and water, this inviting open space is freely composed of mists and small-scaled jets.

Myriad Botanical Garden in Oklahoma City, OK. Five water features are included in Myriad’s 14 acres of botanical gardens, tropical plants, and recreational activities. The children’s fountain offers a unique shade canopy, interactive jets, and mist.

Today we celebrate Karen Adhikari and her twenty years with Fluidity. We celebrate her steady and consummate professionalism, her talented leadership, and her humanism. Karen is not only a great designer, she is a great friend.

“Twenty! What absolutum privilegium it has been to be on this journey with Fluidity since 2005. I can only hope that Fluidity thrived and grew and had a blast from having me as much as I thrived and grew and had a blast from being a part of Fluidity.
With much, much gratitude to one and all for your selfless collaboration in the creation of joy for others through water design.” - Karen Adhikari

To acknowledge Karen’s contributions to our firm and to projects around the world, we rounded up a collection of Karen’s greatest hits over the last twenty years.

1 The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, 2014. Photo by Daniel Traub
2 Grand Park in Los Angeles, 2012. Photo by Jim Simmons
3 Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square, PA, 2017. Photo by Daniel Traub
4 Merdeka 118 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2025. Photo by Steve Pierman

This coming week at the AIA Conference in Boston, ORO Editions will host a book signing for Jim Garland’s recently published work, Fountain Safari, the culmination of Jim’s twenty-year research project dedicated to studying the development of fountains throughout history.

We hope to see you there, June 6th from 2-2:30pm located in the Expo Hall of the AIA conference. All AIA attendees are invited to attend and to purchase a signed copy of the book, or to have their current copy signed by Jim.

To our New York friends and colleagues,

Jim Garland’s book, Fountain Safari, which offers a panoramic history of the development of fountains, and twenty years in the making, is officially published.

The ASLA’s New York Chapter has invited him to give a brief book talk to mark the occasion. Please join Jim and Nicholas Koster, ASLA, for this special event on Thursday night, January 30, from 6:30 - 8:30 PM at:

Acuity Brands Experience Center
5 Pennsylvania Plaza, New York City, NY 10001, 24th Floor

We hope you can attend! To register, please visit the link in our bio and story.