The Wave Wall Fountain is Gone!

''We displayed the drawings on an easel in the lobby for many months, so everyone knew what it was going to look like,'' Weiss recalls. ''We did them in Google SketchUp. Because of the wavy shape, we had to show the whole thing in 3-D, along with the three addenda including every detail.''

The Wave Wall . . . ''Palisades Allegory: The Eye of the eholder'' (August, LASN, P. 20, Article # 13737 online) is gone! Just a month ago, we were sending the Landscape Architect who designed it, William Weiss III, ASLA, out to get night shots for the article. And now it has completely disappeared!

Said Weiss, ''I didn't want to scare the horses, or upset small children and dogs, but apparently the water wall did.'' Well, now the residents can keep their horses calm and their children nightmare free. For the rest of us, this is a whole new sort of nightmare, where ''Beauty'' disappears forever one night, and the ''Beast'' is there to greet us every morning.

Of course, the controversy between the older and younger residents was part of the article and the general gist of the title. Obviously, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and some of the elderly tenants in the building weren't exactly fond of it. But this response to an entry fountain is really over the top. It was supposed to be an allegory of Palisades Park, the legendary amusement park, and subject of song and legend, which sat on the site the buildings now occupy

''The shape and the form were derived as a response to the Euclidean geometry of the entry. But it was also meant to be part of the sky and the DNA of a suburban architectural world that was absent of all DNA,'' explained Weiss.

As of the moment, Weiss has not received any call backs regarding where it went or why. We will keep you informed.