Category: Foundry Square
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Elevators and Marine Engines
235 First Street Foundry Square This wonderful building, sitting amongst all of the surrounding high-rises brings joy to the eye and a question to the mind. The City of San Francisco has labeled this the H.N. Cook Belting Company designed by Ward and Blohme. However the American Architect and Architecture Magazine, Volume 113 disputes that…
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Foundry Square – Not Out of The Woods Yet
Howard at First Street Foundry Square SOMA Not Out of the Woods Yet by Richard Deacon 2003 In 2003 Kenneth Baker of the San Francisco Chronicle wrote: “Deacon’s “Not Out Of The Woods Yet” (2003) nests muscularly in a tight spot behind columns at the entrance to 500 Howard St., on the intersection’s northwest corner.…
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SOMA – Foundry Square
Howard at First Street Foundry Square SOMA Untitled by Joel Shapiro 1996-1999 In 2003 Kenneth Baker of the San Francisco Chronicle wrote: “Shapiro’s renown rests on his having turned the vocabulary of minimal sculpture back toward figuration about 30 years ago. He took square wood beams, favorite forms of his older contemporary Carl Andre, and…
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SOMA – Time Signature
Howard at First Street Foundry Square SOMA Time Signature Richard Deutsch *Richard Deutsch has several sculptures around San Francisco. This piece has it’s own video on Richard’s website, and I highly recommend that you go and view it. The film is a work of art unto itself, and I could not do justice to the…