Public Art and Architecture from Around the World

Category: Chinatown

  • Sun Yat Sen

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    Chinatown St Mary’s Square Quincy, Pine, California and Kearny Streets Sculpted by Beniaminio Bufano This 12 foot statue is inscribed (in Chinese): Dr. Sun Yat Sen 1866-1925 Father of the Chinese Republic and First President Founder of the Kuo Min Tang Champion of Democracy Lover of mankind: Proponent of friendship and peace among the nations,…

  • Chinatown’s Fire Station #2

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    Chinatown, San Francisco 1340 Powell Street Fire Station #2 When you are in the building trades you realize that building parts can be art too.  For most people, however, they are just that, parts.  In the case of this fire station, Al Wong has added art that is whimsical, appropriate, and yet truly probably missed…

  • North Beach Parking Garage

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    North Beach – San Francisco It is hard to believe that a website dedicated to art is going to talk about a parking garage, but that is what makes this job so fun.  This is the North Beach Garage at 735 Vallejo Street. The work was commissioned by the SF Arts Council in collaboration with…

  • Banksy in San Francisco

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    Banksy in San Francisco SOMA 8th Street between Folsom and Harrison Quoting from wikipedia “Banksy is a pseudonymous England based graffiti artist, political activist, film director and painter. His satirical street art and subversive epigrams combine irreverent dark humour with graffiti done in a distinctive stencilling technique. Such artistic works of political and social commentary…

  • Chinatown Architecture

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    15 Waverly Place Chinatown – San Francisco The Marble plaque on this wall reads: Chinese Baptist Church Property of the American Baptist Home Mission Society of NY Built 1888 Destroyed 1906 Rebuilt 1908 When Chinese students were not permitted to attend the city’s public schools, the Church offered day school for children, and night school…

  • Art Nouveau in Chinatown

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    720 Kearny Street Chinatown, San Francisco The first overseas office of the Sing Tao Daily was opened in San Francisco in 1975.  The parent company of the Sing Tao Daily, the Sing Tao Newspaper Group Limited, was founded in 1938 and is based in Hong Kong.  It has one of the longest publishing histories among…

  • Oriental Home and School of San Francisco’s Chinatown

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    Chinatown 940 Washington Street, San Francisco I love the architecture that you find in Chinatown.  I actually think, more because of the history than the actual styles.  This brick building with its’ beautiful tile arched entry is one of my favorites.  It is the Gum Moon Womens Residence.  It has a nice piece of marble…

  • Chinatown’s Dragon Mural and More

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    Chinatown – San Francisco * Chinatown is chock a block with murals, and this is one of my favorites.  It is titled Dragons Gate and is by Wes Wong and Lost One.  According to their website Fresh Paint they are “a San Francisco based mural painting company offering a fresh take on aerosol wall painting.”  They are…

  • Phone Company Building

    Phone Company Building

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    743 Washington Street Chinatown San Francisco’s Chinatown  is the oldest Chinatown in North America and the largest Chinese community outside Asia. Established in the 1840s, It plays an extremely important part in the history of San Francisco and the history of the Chinese diaspora. Chinatown is the most densely populated neighborhood in the city and one…

  • Chinatown Murals

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    Chinatown – San Francisco Stockton and Pacific This mural is also on the Ping Yuen Housing Project.  This is the Stockton Street Side of the building. Painted by Darryl Mar in 1999.  Mar is a graduate of UC Irvine.  He went on to get a masters in Asian American Studies from UCLA.  Mr. Mar was…

  • Chinatown – 8 Immortals

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    Chinatown – San Francisco  711 Pacific Bok Sen  – Eight Immortals I was stopped short by this set of murals.  The style is so obviously asian and yet you just don’t see that style outside of the asian world when it comes to murals.  This is the front of the Ping Yuen Public Housing Project…