HILTON Hotel at the GRB Convention Center

Hilton at Discovery Green in Downtown Houston 

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DISCOVERY GREEN AT THE GRB CONVENTION CENTER 

Downtown Houston Parks

Mist Tree at Discovery Green

Skyscrapers looming above Discovery Green Park

911 Memorial at Market Square Park with tulips

Root Square Park at Toyota Center

Water lily on Kinder Lake at Discovery Green Park
in front of George R Brown Convention Center

Mist Tree water fountain feature at Discovery Green

George R. Brown bronze statute at Discovery Green, Convention Center

George R. Brown

View from Kinder Lake (Discovery Green Park)

Looking North from Discovery Park: Westin Hotel, Annunciation Church, Minute Maid Park

The psychodelic TV Tree art installation is back at Discovery Green

Video Tree Art Installation (rebuilt in 2012)

The TV Tree Story retold
Remembering Andy Mann, Video Art Pioneer

Four Seasons Hotel Downtown Houston

The Dirt Bar with South side of Four Season's Hotel behind

Four Seasons Hotel Downtown Houston at 1300 Lamar St  Houston, TX 77010

Angled-up view of Four Seasons Hotel Building

Four Seasons seen from the South - Park at Toyota Center (Summer 2013 photo)

Four Seasons Hotel (center) with surrounding high-rise-office-buildings and Park One Luxury Residential Tower

Discovery Green and neighboring towers at Nite

Kinder Lake with reflection of lights, One Park Place Luxury Residential Tower (center),
Hess Office Tower (right)

Sculpture at the George R. Brown Convention Center

Kids Playground Area at Discovery Green Park

Playground equipment at Discovery Green Park with artistic touch - stylized metal birds up in the air

Discovery Park at night

The Grove Restaurant and Bar at Discovery Green (photos)

The Grove - Restaurant signage at Entrance with Hess Tower behind

The Grove Restaurant and Bar - Discovery Green Park near Hilton Americas Hotel

Kinder Lake at the George R. Brown Convention Center - Discovery Green

TV tree art installation across Kinder Lake

Kinder means 'children' in German; but the lake takes its name from the Kinder family benefactors. Still, it is not a misnomer, even if understood to be a children's pond (Kinderteich) by visitors from Germany. Indeed, the entire Discovery Green park has much to offer to kids, including boating on the lake (and open-air ice-skating in January which the Galleria Mall only offers indoors); surprise water jets in a walk-about fountain feature; a playground area with equipment to climb on; a water curtain on an art installation, and more. Not to mention that the whole family can go see Downtown from a horse-drawn carriage, which can be hired closeby.

Kinder Lake with partial view of convention center from the boardwalk

Artificial lake with ornamental grasses on shoreline.

Kinder Lake with GRB Convention Center in April 2014 (photo added)

Anheuser-Busch Stage at open-air performance venue in Discovery Green

Winter in Houston - Ice skating surrounded by green grass under blue sky

Skating for all ages at Discovery Green at the Downtown Houston Convention Center

Smoke-free city park: "Smoke-free Zone" Poster at Discovery Green

Not just your ordinary No-Smoking Sign - Smoke-free Zone Poster in vivid colors with butterflies
at Discovery Green Park

Lake House Waterside Cafe in vivid colors

The Lake House at Discovery Green Park - Waterside Cafe

Patio seating with sunshade umbrella at The Lake House

Urban landscaping with grasses

Close-up of arching ornamental grasses with Hilton Americas behind

Kinder Lake with partial view of front of GRB Convention Center

Ornamental grasses at the water - Kinder Lake (backlit by the sun)

Landscaping with grasses on North edge of Discovery Green
Inn at the Ballpark and Annunciation Catholic Church in the Distance