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Who said that?

"They didn’t need to kill the fountain."

-- James Stewart

What is the hulking structure near the water’s edge in Miami's Bayfront Park that looks like a UFO, an inverted birthday cake or an Inca temple?

“A helicopter landing pad?” speculated Michael Korzeniewski, a tourist from Warsaw.

“A bunker?” mused his friend Patrycja Beinkowska.

“Could be a skateboard park,” guessed a visitor from Boston.

“A historic military monument,” said Paula Molina of Colombia.

“No tengo la menor idea,” said her husband, shrugging. “I haven’t the slightest idea.”

It could be any of those things because it is no longer what it was built to be: A spectacular fountain designed by renowned sculptor Isamu Noguchi as the centerpiece of downtown Miami’s front yard.

Read more at the Miami Herald.