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
