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The linear, rectangular pool comprising the water court of the Tadao Ando designed museum in St. Louis’ Grand Center Arts District reflects not just the concrete, canyon-like walls of the building itself, but the tops of the trees planted in the bordering irregularly shaped lot. Early in the 21st century, the Pulitzer Arts Foundation transformed the space from a vacant lot into a small park replete with plantings of chinkapin oak, green ash, honey locust, and redbud. 

Years later, the foundation similarly looked towa