Public Art and Architecture from Around the World

Tag: California School of Arts and Craft

  • Electric Substation and the Art World

    8th and Mission SOMA *  These two bas-reliefs in cast stone, titled Power and Light, sit on the 8th Street side of the Pacific Gas and Electric Mission Substation.  The building was designed in 1948 by William Merchant.  The sculptor was Robert B. Howard. William Gladstone Merchant was a San Francisco architect who trained in…