• "Icosaspirale"
• "Limits of Horizon II"
• "Two Columns with Wedge"
• Juan Bautista de Anza
• Fountain
• Monument to the 1934 Maritime Strike
• Drought restricted fountain
• "Large Four Piece Reclining Figure"
• "Chronos XIV"
• "Sky Tree"
• Abbreviations

The major office tower [Alcoa Building] in the Golden Gateway Redevelopment Project...was the first design to use the seismic X-bracing as part of its structural aesthetic. The idea was used again in Chicago's Hancock Building, designed in the firm's Chicago office. The formal plan for the garden squares on top of the garages was intended to create the effect of an outdoor sculpture museum. Major pieces are by Marino Marini, Henry Moore, Charles Perry, and Jan Peter Stern; the fountain is by Robert Woodward. Although the rooftop plazas are convincing pedestrian precints in the sky, the street level is a grim reminder of what happens when an area is abandoned to auto traffic (Woodbridge and Woodbridge 1992: 34).

The major office tower [Alcoa Building] in the Golden Gateway Redevelopment Project...was the first design to use the seismic X-bracing as part of its structural aesthetic. The idea was used again in Chicago's Hancock Building, designed in the firm's Chicago office. The formal plan for the garden squares on top of the garages was intended to create the effect of an outdoor sculpture museum. Major pieces are by Marino Marini, Henry Moore, Charles Perry, and Jan Peter Stern; the fountain is by Robert Woodward. Although the rooftop plazas are convincing pedestrian precints in the sky, the street level is a grim reminder of what happens when an area is abandoned to auto traffic (Woodbridge and Woodbridge 1992: 34).

The [Embarcadero Center] towers, clad in rough-finished, precast concrete, are composed of slablike elements stepped to create 10 to 14 corner offices per floor instead of the usual four. Their slender profiles are a welcome departure from the heavier towers on the skyline. The city's requirement that one percent of development money be spent for art has endowed the Center with a number of works of art, including sculptures by Willi Gutman, Michael Biggers, Nicholas Schoffer, Anne Van Kleeck, Louise Nevelson, Barbara Showcroft, and Robert Russin.

The great interior space [of the Hyatt Regency Hotel] has a monumental spherical sculpture of aluminum tubing by Charles Perry titled Eclipse (Woodbridge and Woodbridge 1992: 34).

[M. Justin Herman] Plaza's other sculptures include an equestrian statue of Juan Bautista de Anza by Julian Martinez, a gift from the governor of Sonora, Mexico (Woodbridge and Woodbridge 1992: 37).

Part of the Market Street Beautification Project, the [M. Justin Herman] Plaza suffers some from its north orientation. Since the completion of the Embarcadero Center, the daytime crowd enlivens the space as do frequent craft markets and entertainment. The fountain by Armand Vaillancourt used to have the double-decker freeway as a backdrop. Now that the freeway is gone, the array of angular concrete forms can no longer be joked about as a stockpile of spare freeway parts. For the moment it seems overexposed. (Woodbridge and Woodbridge 1992: 37).

A painted and welded steel monument to the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union that commemorates the 1934 Maritime Strike. Ten local artists collaborated on the sculpture calling themselves METAL. (Woodbridge and Woodbridge 1992: 37).

A special delight is the drought restricted fountain set into the plaza steps. Designed by Ruth Asawa, the bronze reliefs on the drum were cast from "bakers' clay," a flour, salt, and water dough modeled by family members, neighbors, and scores of school children into scenes of San Francisco (Woodbridge and Woodbridge 1992: 6).

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Rouda, 1980 (Personal observation).

The [Embarcadero Center] towers, clad in rough-finished, precast concrete, are composed of slablike elements stepped to create 10 to 14 corner offices per floor instead of the usual four. Their slender profiles are a welcome departure from the heavier towers on the skyline. The city's requirement that one percent of development money be spent for art has endowed the Center with a number of works of art, including sculptures by Willi Gutman, Michael Biggers, Nicholas Schoffer, Anne Van Kleeck, Louise Nevelson, Barbara Showcroft, and Robert Russin.

The great interior space [of the Hyatt Regency Hotel] has a monumental spherical sculpture of aluminum tubing by Charles Perry titled Eclipse (Woodbridge and Woodbridge 1992: 34).

The [Embarcadero Center] towers, clad in rough-finished, precast concrete, are composed of slablike elements stepped to create 10 to 14 corner offices per floor instead of the usual four. Their slender profiles are a welcome departure from the heavier towers on the skyline. The city's requirement that one percent of development money be spent for art has endowed the Center with a number of works of art, including sculptures by Willi Gutman, Michael Biggers, Nicholas Schoffer, Anne Van Kleeck, Louise Nevelson, Barbara Showcroft, and Robert Russin.

The great interior space [of the Hyatt Regency Hotel] has a monumental spherical sculpture of aluminum tubing by Charles Perry titled Eclipse (Woodbridge and Woodbridge 1992: 34).

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