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40-Year-Old Sculpture Demolished in Battery Park City Resiliency Project

11/14/2025

A massive 40-year-old art sculpture is being demolished in Battery Park City to make way for the controversial North/West Battery Park City Resiliency (NWBPCR) project. The sculpture, titled Upper Room, by artist Ned Smyth, is a 20-column court featuring an …

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SF Redevelopment Plan Threatens Brutalist Vaillancourt Fountain

10/17/2025

SF Redevelopment Plan Threatens Brutalist Vaillancourt Fountain The City of San Francisco has proposed a $35 million renovation of Embarcadero Plaza that does not include the park’sVaillancourt Fountain, a 710-ton Brutalist concrete structure completed in 1971 by Canadian artist Armand …

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San Francisco May Destroy Vaillancourt Fountain in Redevelopment Plan

10/15/2025

The city of San Francisco is considering destroying a Brutalist fountain by Armand Vaillancourt in a redevelopment of Embarcadero Plaza. In an October 2024 meeting of San Francisco’s Recreation and Park Commission, the commission’s general manager Phil Ginsburg revealed he …

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What Is Brutalist Architecture, and Why Is It Important?

01/15/2025

Few can agree on whether Brutalist architecture looks nice, but seemingly everyone wants to weigh in on the matter. In 2020, for example, US President Donald Trump targeted Brutalist architecture in an executive order that demanded that all future federal …

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