Essential Forces

Fountain in Portland, Oregon, U.S.

Essential Forces

The fountain and stone pillars outside the arena, 2007

Year| 1995 (1995)
Location| Portland, Oregon, U.S.
Coordinates| 45°31′51″N 122°40′03″W﻿ / ﻿45.53092°N 122.66761°W﻿ / 45.53092; -122.66761

Essential Forces, or the Essential Forces Fountain, is a fountain outside Portland, Oregon's Moda Center, in the United States.[1][2] The water feature was created by WET Design of Los Angeles, and its stone pillars once shot out fire.[3] It is "computerized" and was donated to the city by Paul Allen.[4] The fountain was completed in 1995 and has 500 water jets.[5][6]

## References[edit]

1. ^ "Everything going on in and outside Moda Center for Game 3 & 4". NBC Sports Northwest. April 21, 2016.
2. ^ "Allen, 'ultimate trail blazer,' celebrated at opener". ESPN.com. October 19, 2018.
3. ^ Oregonian/OregonLive, Allan Brettman | The (November 2, 2013). "Trail Blazers' opening night to feature WiFi, an app, local food and a new arena name". oregonlive.`{{cite web}}`: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
4. ^ Gottberg, John; Lopeman, Elizabeth (June 1, 2010). Best Places: Portland, 8th Edition. Sasquatch Books. ISBN 9781570616990 - via Google Books.
5. ^ Gallivan, Joseph. "Portland, out of order".
6. ^ "Portland: Compact And Crammed With Possibilities | The Seattle Times". archive.seattletimes.com.

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Fountains in Portland, Oregon

* Animals in Pools (1986)
* Benson Bubbler
* Charles Frederic Swigert Jr. Memorial Fountain (1983)
* Chiming Fountain (1891)
* The Dreamer (1979)
* Thompson Elk Fountain (1900)
* Essential Forces (1995)
* Fountain for Company H (1914)
* Fountain to a Rose (1973)
* Frank E. Beach Memorial Fountain (1975)
* Horse Trough Fountain
* Jamison Square
* Keller Fountain Park
* Loyal B. Stearns Memorial Fountain (1941)
* Lovejoy Fountain Park
* Pioneer Woman (1956)
* Salmon Street Springs
* Shemanski Fountain
* Skidmore Fountain

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Lloyd District, Portland, Oregon

Buildings|

* DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Portland
* Hassalo on Eighth
* Hyatt Regency Portland
* Kaiser Permanente Building
* Liberty Centre
* Lloyd Center
* Lloyd Center Tower
* Moda Center
* Oregon Convention Center
* Oregon Square
* Portland State Office Building
* Veterans Memorial Coliseum

Business|

* Altabira City Tavern
* Frank's Noodle House
* Joe Brown's Carmel Corn
* Spirit of 77

Geography|

* Rose Quarter

Public art|

* Ainu and Native American power boards
* Bell Circles II
* Capitalism
* Essential Forces
* Host Analog
* Ideals
* Korean Temple Bell
* Little Prince
* Memorial Fountain
* Silicon Forest
* Streetcar Stop for Portland
* Terra Incognita
* The Dream
* Three Figures

Transportation|

* Broadway Bridge
* Convention Center station
* Interstate/Rose Quarter station
* Lloyd Center/Northeast 11th Avenue station
* Northeast 7th Avenue station
* Rose Quarter Transit Center
* Steel Bridge

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Public art in Portland, Oregon

Sculptures

* 118 Modules
* Ainu and Native American power boards
* Allow Me
* Alluvial Wall
* Along These Lines
* Artwall
* Ascension
* Awning
* Bell Circles II
* Broken Wall Memorial
* Brushstrokes
* Burls Will Be Burls
* The Burnside Nest
* Bust of York†
* Cairns
* Capitalism
* Cat in Repose
* Chinatown Gateway
* City Reflections
* Constellation
* Continuation
* Contact II
* Da Tung and Xi'an Bao Bao
* Daddy Long Legs
* Dog Bowl
* Driver's Seat
* Echo Gate
* Electronic Poet
* Facing the Crowd
* Farewell to Orpheus
* Festival Lanterns
* Floribunda
* Folly Bollards
* Fountain to a Rose†
* Friendship Circle
* From Within Shalom
* Garden Wreath
* Ghost Ship
* The Green Man of Portland
* Heart Beacon
* Holon
* Host Analog
* Howard's Way
* Ideals
* In the Shadow of the Elm
* Interlocking Forms
* Inversion: Plus Minus
* John Fitzgerald Kennedy Memorial
* Kerf
* Korean Temple Bell
* Kvinneakt
* Leland I
* Lewis and Clark Memorial Column
* Liberty Bell
* Little Prince
* Mago Hermano (Brother Wizard or Magician)
* Memory 99
* Mimir
* Nash
* Nepenthes
* Nightmare Elk†
* O Cruceiro
* Oregon Landscape
* Oregon Holocaust Memorial
* Oregon Irish Famine Memorial
* Passage
* Peace Chant
* People's Bike Library of Portland
* Perpetuity
* Pod
* Portland Immigrant Statue
* Portlandia
* The Promised Land†
* The Quest
* The Responsibility of Raising a Child
* Ring of Time
* The Rippling Wall
* River Legend
* Royal Rosarian
* Running Horses
* Salmon Cycle Marker
* The Scout
* Sculpture Stage
* Silicon Forest
* Silver Dawn
* Soaring Stones
* Solar Wreath
* Spanish–American War Soldier's Monument
* Spanish–American War Veterans Memorial†
* Stack Stalk
* Stratum
* Streetcar Stop for Portland
* Talos No. 2
* Tecotosh
* Terra Incognita
* Theodore Roosevelt Memorial†
* This All Happened More or Less
* Thor
* Three Figures
* Tikitotmoniki Totems
* Transcendence
* Tree of Life
* Triad
* Trio
* Trigger 4
* Unfolding Rhythms
* Untitled
* Killmaster
* Morrison
* West
* Upstream Downtown
* Urban Hydrology
* Uroboros
* Velosaurus
* Ventana al Pacifico
* Victory Bell
* Voices of Remembrance
* Water, Please
* We Have Always Lived Here
* Weather Machine
* Whistlestop for an Organ Teacher
* Wind Gate
* Winter Rider No. 2
* Yankee Champion
* You Are Here

| Fountains|

* Animals in Pools
* Charles Frederic Swigert Jr. Memorial Fountain
* Chiming Fountain
* The Dreamer
* Essential Forces
* Fountain for Company H
* Frank E. Beach Memorial Fountain
* Horse Trough Fountain
* Keller Fountain
* Lovejoy Fountain
* Loyal B. Stearns Memorial Fountain
* Memorial Fountain
* Pioneer Woman
* Salmon Street Springs
* Shemanski Fountain
* Skidmore Fountain
* Thompson Elk Fountain†

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Portrait
statues|

* Paul Bunyan
* Captain William Clark Monument
* Coming of the White Man
* The Dream
* Benjamin Franklin
* Thomas Jefferson
* Joan of Arc
* Vera Katz
* Abraham Lincoln†
* Oddo Memorial
* Sacajawea and Jean-Baptiste
* Harvey W. Scott†
* Theodore Roosevelt, Rough Rider†
* George Washington†
* York: Terra Incognita

Murals

* Black Lives Matter street mural†
* Capax Infiniti
* Conduit
* The Continuity of Life Forms
* George Floyd mural†
* The Knowledge
* Lovejoy Columns
* Never Look Away
* Oregon History
* Packy mural†
* Portland Memorial Mausoleum Mural
* Tri It
* We Stand with You
* Women Making History in Portland
* Woodstock Mural

Related

* A Donkey, 3 Rocks, and a Bird.
* Art collection of Oregon Health & Science University
* Benson Bubbler
* Black Lives Matter art
* Elkhorn
* Graffiti in Portland, Oregon
* Horse rings
* Martini glass sign

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