As soon as they'd bought tickets and entered the grounds, Arkady got out of the way while Zhenya made a slow perambulation of the plaza fountain to scan the crowd.
At 5:30, just outside the doors of Fisher Hall, politicians had their say, diplomats were acknowledged, then the plaza fountain was turned on in a blast of celebration.
During the same time period, infrastructure such as the city's aqueduct and various plaza fountains were constructed.
Among the artworks commissioned for the cathedral are the tapestries of the communion of saints by painter John Nava, and the plaza fountain by Lita Albuquerque and Robert Kramer.
At 5:07 A.M., 360 mirrors will be placed around the plaza fountain to absorb a maximum of energy on the year's longest day.
There was, in fact, everything but a gondola in the plaza fountain.
The initial design has remained intact; however benches and fences have been installed around the plaza fountains to discourage visitors from wading into the pools.
To gain the city's approval, NBC agreed to reduce the size of the project by 100,000 square feet, to recycle the water in its plaza fountains and spend 1 percent of the project's cost on art for the plaza.
He handed her the wineskin he'd filled with water from the plaza fountain and waited in silence while she drank.
The new plaza fountains were spurting so exuberantly high that their water did not fall back into the drainage pools around them; it was spreading in a layer across the entire extent of The Heart of the One World.