Pier 14
Waterfront/Embarcadero
This 637-foot-long pedestrian span opened in 2006. It is the newest recreational pier on the San Francisco waterfront.
The reason it exists is the breakwater on which it rests, a shield for ferries from winter storms; the design, by ROMA Design group was to top the pier with a 15-foot-wide corridor of concrete framed by long thin rails of horizontal steel.
This $2.3 Million was done in two phases.
Phase I construction was completed in 2004, and included building a 115-foot pier extension to connect the breakwater to the Embarcadero Promenade, a 30-foot diameter terminus at the outer
end, entry railings, and a portal structure with a rollup gate.
The playful swivel chairs, designed by ROMA Design Group and the Port, were fabricated by Eclipse Design, who also fabricated all 1300 feet of the Pier’s railing. These items were done in 2005 under Phase II.
Along the way you can read the Sailor’s Song (From Death’s Jest Book, Act I) by Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803-1849)
TO sea, to sea! The calm is o’er
The wanton water leaps in sport
And rattles down the pebbly shore
The dolphin wheels, the sea-cows snort,
And unseen mermaids’ pearly song
Comes bubbling up, the weeds among.
Fling broad the sail, dip deep the oar:
To sea, to sea! the calm is over.
To sea, to sea! our wide-winged bark
Shall billowy cleave its sunny way,
And with its shadow, fleet and dark,
Break the caved Tritons’ azure day,
Like mighty eagle soaring light
O’er antelopes on Alpine height.
The anchor heaves, the ship swings free,
The sails swell full. To sea, to sea!
