Category: Mission Bay
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Bay Front Park
The eastern side of Terry A. Francois Boulevard between Warriors Way and 16th Street SurfaceDesign has created a small oasis of calm on property owned and managed by the Port of San Francisco. According to SurfaceDesign, the park has been designed to incorporate sea level rise, which is a precedent for parks in the country.…
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Skyhorn
On 3rd Street between 16th and Mariposa According to the artist’s website, Skyhorn is an engaging bronze sculpture that is a wayfinding landmark within a large UCSF medical campus. This monumental, interactive sound sculpture draws our attention to the sky and what lies beyond, serving as a poetic metaphor that invites pause and reflection. Cast…
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Holographic Entities Reminding of the Universe
May 2021 Pierpoint Lane between Third Street and Bridgeview Way – San Francisco Artists Statement: Consisting of nine artworks, this installation reflects my interest in ancestral traditions and folklore that speak to the interrelatedness of all beings, animate and inanimate, in the universe. The sculptures are inspired by shapeshifters: ever-evolving entities that continue to reinvent…
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Orbital
May 2021 Pierpoint Lane between Third Street and Bridgeview Way Artists Jason Kelly Johnson and Nataly Gattegno – Studio Futureforms Artists Statement: Orbital is a contemporary garden folly, exploring geometric and material exuberance it evokes organic forms found in nature, but also giant robots and futuristic space vehicles. The structure is composed of three coiled legs…
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Pathways
Chase Center 500 Terry A Francois Boulevard Adam Eli Fiebelman is a San Francisco based artist who is known best for his stencil and cut paper-based works. His childhood in Albuquerque, New Mexico was spent examining and interacting with the surfaces of the city through making graffiti art. His awareness of the structures we…
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ATSF Car Ferry Slip
The Atchison and Topeka Car Ferry Slip Between Piers 52 and 50 Mission Bay Built in 1950, not much remains of the ATSF Car Ferry Slip. What does remain consists of a large, fork-shaped pier covered in wood decking. Near the mid-point of the structure is a large, steel-frame freight tower consisting of a pair…
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Monarch
1600 Owens Mission Bay, San Francisco Cliff Garten Studio is internationally recognized for creating integrated public art projects which collaborate with urban design, architecture, landscape architecture and engineering to challenge the assumptions of how public places are built and used. Through a diversity of materials, methods and scale, the studio is committed to exploiting the…
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Anima by Jim Sanborn
1700 Owens Street Mission Bay, San Francisco This piece, in Mission Bay, is titled Anima, and is by American Sculptor Jim Sanborn (1945 – ). Sanborn is best known for creating the encrypted Kryptos sculpture at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, a piece of work that has captured the imagination of cryptologists around the world for years. He…
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Overflow X
1500 Owens Street Mission Bay, San Francisco Overflow X is a stainless steel sculpture by Jaume Plensa. Jaume Plensa was born in 1955 in Barcelona, where he studied at the Llotja School of Art and Design and at the Sant Jordi School of Fine Art. He has been a teacher at the École nationale supérieure…
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First Responder Plaza – SF
1245 Third Street Mission Bay The new City and County Public Safety Building houses the police administrative headquarters, a relocated district police station, a new district fire station, San Francisco’s SWAT team and fleet vehicle parking. Part of the design included the First Responder Plaza at the corner on Third Street, designed by artist Paul…
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Spiral of Gratitude
Spiral of Gratitude is part of the $3.2 million Percent for Art Program that went into San Francisco’s new Public Safety Building. Spiral of Gratitude, by New York artist Shimon Attie, is a suspended, 17 foot tall 10 foot round glass cylinder that is lit from a skylight above. The cylinder is inscribed with a…
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Mission Bay – Koret Quad
Mission Bay Mission Bay Koret Quad The Koret Quad is a large green space in the heart of Mission Bay. I have discussed my abhorrence with this part of town before. The quad is only accessible by pedestrians and is so well hidden as to be missed by most people. This is somewhat intentional I…
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Mission Bay – HEAL
Mission Bay UCSF Campus Heal by Miroslaw Balka Miroslaw Balka was born in Ottwock, Poland, near Warsaw, and continues to live and work there. He turned his family home into a studio. Austere, with a sense of absence and empty space, his work is defined by the people that interact with it. HEAL is a…
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Mission Bay – Ballast
Mission Bay Ballast by Richard Serra Corten Steel One of my absolute favorite mediums for massive outdoor sculpture is Corten Steel. Weathering steel, best-known under the trademark COR-TEN steel and sometimes written without the hyphen as “Corten steel”, is a group of steel alloys which were developed to eliminate the need for painting, and form…
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Mission Bay – Brought To Light
Mission Bay Brought to Light by Lawrence Weiner Lawrence Weiner grew up in the Bronx and attended Stuyvesant High School, working as a longshoreman in the early mornings before classes. As a young man he hitchhiked to San Francisco and lived among the Beat poets. His earliest work was done in Mill Valley, in 1960.…
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Mission Bay -I’m Alive
Mission Bay 409-499 Illinois I’m Alive by Tony Cragg – 2004 Stainless Steel Tony Cragg was born in liverpool in 1949. He attended Gloucestershire College of Art and Design, Cheltenham College, and the Royal College of Art, London (1973-77). Cragg has lived and worked in Wuppertal, Germany, since 1977. I’m Alive exudes movement and vitality…
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Mission Bay – Doppel Fountain
Mission Bay Doppel Fountain by Shawn Smith In his own words: In 2006, I was commissioned to create a monumental sculpture by SKS Investments/ X-4 Dolphin LLC in San Francisco’s Mission Bay district. I designed a pixilated stainless steel fountain that appears to be frozen in mid-air. The pixilated fountain is made of varying lengths of…
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Mission Bay – Hulls
Mission Bay 500 A. Terry Francois Blvd at Pierpoint Lane * Hulls by Richard Deutsch Hulls commemorates Mission Bay’s waterfront, which is steeped in maritime history. During the 16th century Ohlone Indians, sustained by hunting and fishing, built boats from reeds of the bay’s shallow waters. The 1800’s saw a vibrant industry of wooden schooners…
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Mission Bay – Where did good architecture go?
Mission Bay What happened to architecture? This is not architecture, this is value engineering. These buildings were cliches before they were finished. No one is going to fly hundreds of miles to the great city of San Francisco and snap pictures of these monstrosities, unless of course they are urban planners. I would like to…
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Rammaytush
These plaques run along the south side of King Street, between the Caltrain station and AT&T Park. There are 104 of them embedded in the sidewalk. On them are engraved all of the known words of a language called Rammaytush. The Rammaytush language is one of the eight Ohlone languages, historically spoken by the…