Tag: Embarcadero Center
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Creazione by Dimitri Hadzi
Dimitri Hadzi’s Creazione, a bronze sculpture with a spirited sense of movement was inspired by the music of Mozart. Dimitri Hadzi (1921-2006) was born in New York City. As a child he was sent to a Greek after-school program, where he received instruction in Greek language, mythology, history, and theater. His artistic ability won him a…
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University of Wisdom in the Financial District
310 Battery Street Financial District Embarcadero * This piece sits on the other side of the Old Federal Reserve Building from Dionysus and Hermes, also by Armand Arman. The French-born American artist Arman told an interviewer in 1968. “I have never been — how do you say it? A dilettante.” Arman’s vast artistic output ranges…
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Hermes and Dionysus Shake it Up
411 Sansome Street Financial District * * This bronze, done in 1986, titled Hermes and Dionysus-Monument to Analysis is by Arman. (1928-2005) The French-born American artist Arman told an interviewer in 1968. “I have never been — how do you say it? A dilettante.” Arman’s vast artistic output ranges from drawings and prints to monumental…
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Embarcadero Center – La Chiffonniere
Embarcadero Center * Jean Dubuffet – La Chiffonniere With “La Chiffonniere,” French artist Jean Dubuffet conveyed a woman dressed in rags by utilizing petal-like layers of curved stainless steel edged in epoxy Dubuffet (1901-1985) was a French painter and sculptor. His idealistic approach to aesthetics embraced so called “low art” and eschewed traditional standards…
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Embarcadero Center –
More on the Embarcadero Center, San Francisco. Walk inside the Hyatt Regency adjacent to Embarcadero Center One, ride the escalator up and, behold, Charles O. Perry’s “Eclipse”, a 40-foot high geodesic sphere consisting of 1,400 pieces of curved metal tubing joined together in pentagons and supported by three massive steel legs. Continue out onto Justin Herman…
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The Embarcadero Center
When urban renewal laws took hold in the 1950’s, city planner M. Justin Herman spearheaded a plan to redevelop the site where Embarcadero Center now stands into a mixed-use “city within a city.” David Rockefeller, John Portman, and Trammel-Crow submitted the winning proposal to develop the 8.5 acre site. Embarcadero Center’s four office towers were…
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Embarcadero Center
The Embarcadero – San Francisco Two Columns with Wedge by William Gutmann Visiting San Francisco, like many cities in the world, leaves one with the need for more time or many visits. The first few visits people very rarely get out of Union Square. Some people are able to get to the Ferry building and…