Public Art and Architecture from Around the World

Tag: Union Square

  • Dancing Dahlias on Claude Lane

    8 Claude Lane Union Square/Financial District * This mural, (on  the outside of Claudine Restaurant) is by Vogue TDK.  According to an interview he did with 1:AM he got into graffiti in late 1984, after school, I turned on the TV to the local PBS station and caught the start of the documentary “Style Wars”.  There…

  • Union Square – Dewey Monument

    Union Square * Most everyone that visits San Francisco sees this piece of public art.  Two years before the Gold Rush, in 1847, Jasper O’Farrell, the first surveyor of San Francisco,  created a design for the city, with Union Square as a public plaza. By the 1880s, it was a fashionable residential district, and in…

  • Union Square – Lamp Posts

    Union Square * * * Union Square Collonade by Ron M. Fischer Union Square was built and dedicated by San Francisco’s first mayor, John Geary in 1850 and is so named for the pro-Union rallies that happened there before and during the United States Civil War. Since then, the plaza has undergone many notable changes…

  • Claude Lane Mural

    Union Square – San Francisco Claude Lane Claude Lane is a small alley that runs between Bush and Sutter Streets in San Francisco.  It began developing in 1989 when Cafe Claude opened up with an alley entrance.  It blossomed over the years and now rivals Belden Place for shopping, dining and that European cafe experience. Mear…

  • Union Square 1:AM

    Union Square – San Francisco Saks Fifth Avenue – Fifth Floor It is difficult to write about Union Square when discussing art.  The only form of art that you actually find is the pursuance of the all mighty dollar.  It is what many think of when they travel to our fair city, and it’s center…