Arts & Entertainment Vaillancourt Fountain Gets One Last Chance at Survival, as Demolition Gets Appealed to Board of Supervisors There is one more last-gasp, hail mary attempt to save the Embarcadero's crumbling and controversial Vaillancourt Fountain, as preservationists have appealed the decision to remove it to the SF Board of Supervisors.
SF News Vaillancourt Fountain Will Now Likely Be Removed, as SF Arts Commission Approves Taking the Fountain Down A 15-month-long controversy over the possible removal of the brutalist Vaillancourt Fountain is over, as the SF Arts Commission just voted 8-5 to take it down, though they say it will be put into storage and it could possibly be rebuilt.
Arts & Entertainment SF Rec & Parks Appears to Make End Run to Get Rid of Vaillancourt Fountain In a Hurry Many have called the hulking Brutalist fountain at Embarcardero Plaza "maligned" and even "ugly," but artist Armand Vaillancourt's sculptural work still has many fans who will not be pleased by the lastest move by SF Rec & Parks to remove it in short order.
Arts & Entertainment Skaters Are Latest Group to Voice Opposition to Removal of Vaillancourt Fountain You may not know this, but the much reviled Vaillancourt Fountain at Embarcadero Plaza has become an iconic backdrop, and set piece, for skateboarding videos over decades.
SF News SF Rec and Parks Officially Requests Removal of Embarcadero’s Vaillancourt Fountain In the most decisive move yet to remove the ungodly but marginally beloved Vaillancourt Fountain in Sue Bierman Plaza, the SF Rec and Parks Department has come right out and asked the city to tear that fugly fountain down.
SF News Embarcadero Plaza’s Maligned Brutalist Fountain Likely Done For, According to Rec and Parks Official It’s another rectangular tube in the coffin for the Embarcadero Plaza’s 54-year-old Vaillancourt Fountain, as a top SF Rec and Parks official told an audience at a Tuesday night meeting that restoring the fountain is “beyond our project budget.”
SF News SF’s Controversial Vaillancourt Fountain Deemed 'Hazardous,’ Now Getting Fenced Off to the Public The fugly but beloved-to-some Vaillancourt Fountain at Embarcadero Plaza was already on the ropes and uncertain to be kept around, but now the city is fencing it off, as a new architectural report says it's a hazard to the public.
Arts & Entertainment 95-Year-Old Artist Behind Often Reviled Embarcadero Plaza Fountain Flies to SF to 'Save' It The sculptor behind the 54-year-old Vaillancourt Fountain, which won't ever be called the most popular piece of public art in SF, took it upon himself to fly here this week and call for a preemptive hearing on its fate.
Arts & Entertainment Very Unattractive Embarcadero Fountain May Be Demolished, But Its Fans Are Fighting to Preserve It The brutalist and not particularly well-liked Villaincourt Fountain at the Embarcadero Plaza might be getting demolished and removed, but a gang of enthusiasts, including the designer Villaincourt himself, are on a bender to preserve it.
SF News Entire Board of Supervisors Wants To Rename Justin Herman Plaza There is not much suspense to this afternoon’s San Francisco Board of Supervisors Land Use and Transportation Committee vote on whether to rename the Embarcadero’s Justin Herman Plaza. Considering that every
SF News Appalling Embarcadero Fountain Would Cost a Half Million Dollars To Turn Back On I love the angular Vaillancourt Fountain, the 40-foot tall concrete tangle of disjointed modernist square tubes at the northern end of Justin Herman Plaza, mostly thanks to fond memories of the location that
