Category: Lower Pacific Heights
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Tapestry of Life: The Warp and Weft of Care
CPMC Cathedral Hill Campus1101 Van Ness Avenue Deanna Marsh began by photographing medical gauze and digitally manipulating the image. This horizontal sculpture is metal and kiln-formed glass intended to “echo the woven tapestry beneath, becoming abstract Petri dishes of our individual biology with circulatory flow and beauty in each glass ring”. Deanna Marsh earned her…
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Conservatory of Flowers Photo Montage
CPMC Cathedral Hill Campus1101 Van Ness Avenue This photograph, by Stephan Bay, is a collage of CPMC employees. This Giclee on canvas was done in 2018. Stephen Bay is a landscape photographer. Born in Canada, Stephen studied engineering and computer science while learning photography on his own. After earning his Ph.D., Stephen moved to Silicon…
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Paul Selinger piece is gone
This piece once stood in the Broderick and Bush Mini Park In 2010 the SFAC de-accessed this piece due to damage, one can assume it was destroyed. “Civic Art Collection Senior Registrar Allison Cummings informed the Committee of the need to remove Paul Selinger’s sculpture Untitled, 1971 (Accession #1971.44) from its current location at Broderick…
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Cosmo Cocktails
20 Cosmo Place Lower Nob Hill/Tenderloin This unassuming building has been providing fine drinks, food and happiness to San Francisco’s since 1951. Trader Vic’s opened in Cosmo Alley in 1951. The restaurant was built from an old corrugated parking garage. Passing along the narrow walk way through a tropical garden, customers entered the rustic…
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Knights Templar Building
2135 Sutter Street Western Addition This steel reinforced building with brick exterior walls trimmed in lots of terra cotta was designed by Matthew O’Brien and Carl Werner in the architectural style known as the Jacobean Phase of Medieval Revival. It was built in 1905 and 1906-1907. The building has been home to two institutions, the Knights…
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Bufano at Westside Courts
Westside Courts Housing Project 2501 Sutter Street Lower Pacific Heights This sculpture, by well known San Francisco sculptor Beniamino Bufano, is titled Saint Francis on Horseback. Standing 8′ x 6′ and of black granite it is located in the central courtyard of the project. It was made in 1935 but not placed here until 1945. Westside…
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Living Walls
Using plants for architectural and artistic statements is as old as time, but I am fascinated about how it is becoming part of the main stream. I was driving down 10th and spotted this newly installed gem at the corner with Bryant. These things are so amazingly versatile. Indoors, outdoors, sun, shade, they apparently create…