Public Art and Architecture from Around the World

Tag: Scultpure

  • Overflow X

    Overflow X

    1500 Owens Street Mission Bay, San Francisco Overflow X  is a stainless steel sculpture by Jaume Plensa. Jaume Plensa was born in 1955 in Barcelona, where he studied at the Llotja School of Art and Design and at the Sant Jordi School of Fine Art. He has been a teacher at the École nationale supérieure…

  • Dr. Burt Brent and his Hippopatomus

    Dr. Burt Brent and his Hippopatomus

    San Francisco Zoo Sloat and The Great Highway Lakeside This hippopotamus is not only a wonderful sculpture but a favorite climbing creature in the San Francisco Zoo.  Heavyweight was sculpted by Dr. Burt Brent of Portola Valley. According to a 2007 article in the Almanac: Dr. Burt Brent, a plastic surgeon with an office in…

  • Flower Boxes at the Bohemian Club

    624 Taylor Street Nob Hill These planter boxes were commissioned by the architect, Lewis Hobart, for the Bohemian Club in 1933.  They were sculpted by Haig Patigian. Haig Patigian has been in this site may times, you can read all about him and his works here. Lewis Parsons Hobart was born in St. Louis, Missouri…

  • Trader Vic the Sculptor

    California Academy of Sciences Golden Gate Park These two seals once resided outside the California Academy of Sciences.  They are now inside near the restaurant.  This view is through the fence.  Entry to the Academy is $30 for adults. These two seals were sculpted by Victor Jules Bergeron.  Known locally as Trader Vic, Bergeron is…