Tag: Peter Richards
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SFGH Healing Garden
1001 Potrero San Francisco General Hospital The artist designed this small garden, in 1993, as an extension to an existing hospital memorial garden and as a place to provide seating sheltered from the wind. A red gravel walkway, edged in white granite city-surplus curbstones, forms a double helix, which is symbolic of life. The seating…
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Philosophers Walk on the Top of the World
John McLaren Park Mansell Drive and John F. Shelley Drive Excelsior and Visitacion Valley This is the view towards downtown San Francisco from John McLaren Park. Named for John McLaren, the superintendent of Golden Gate Park from 1887 to 1943, it is the second largest park in the city, after Golden Gate Park. Within McLaren Park’s…
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San Francisco’s Wave Organ
Yacht Road Marina Green * The View towards the wave organ from Marina Green Looking back towards downtown and Fort Mason from the Wave Organ The Golden Gate Bridge from the Wave Organ Palace of Fine Arts and the San Francisco Yacht Club, view from the Wave Organ The Wave Organ is an exhibit of…