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Tag: Charles Perry

  • Icosaspirale

      1 Maritime Plaza Icosaspirale by Charles Perry – 1967 – 8 feet – Brass  This sculpture is constructed of bronze rods brazed together into triangular sections. Those sections were assembled into an Icosahedron shape. Note that each triangle that makes up the Icosahedron is itself a spiral. Hense the name “Icosaspirale Charles O. Perry (1929-2011) was…

  • The Embarcadero

     Bronze Horse” by Marino Marini.  The fountain behind it is by Robert Woodward. Real estate development projects in San Francisco are required to develop public spaces in order to obtain project approval. A good example of this is at the One Maritime Plaza building, located at Battery and Clay Streets, near the Embarcadero Center office…