San Francisco’s much-loved, much-derided and nonfunctional Vaillancourt Fountain is in the crosshairs again after 54 years of existence, with city officials calling it decrepit, unsafe and too costly ...

The fight for Vaillancourt Fountain heated up Tuesday night at a community meeting where a San Francisco city official said publicly for the first time that the controversial concrete sculpture is not ...

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Vaillancourt won an international competition to design the sculpture in the late 1960s. (Cullen238/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY 3.0) The fountain installed in 1971 is the centerpiece of the public plaza ...

Some rapscallion decided that the divisive Vaillancourt Fountain at Embarcadero Plaza (formerly Justin Herman Plaza) needed to clean up its act, as the circa-1971 installation overflowed with soap ...

Mayor London Breed wants to turn a concrete Embarcadero Plaza in San Francisco into a 5-acre park in front of the Ferry Building, with the help of BXP and local businesses. The mayor will introduce ...

A certain subplot has emerged in ongoing talks about the ever-elusive possibility of changing the name of the Embarcadero’s Justin Hermann Plaza: A lot of San Franciscans would much rather City Hall ...

On November 3, the San Francisco Arts Commission approved a motion to allow the Vaillancourt Fountain, by Armand Vaillancourt, to be removed from the Lawrence Halprin–designed Embarcadero Plaza. Now, ...

In an eight-to-five vote on Monday (3 November), the San Francisco Arts Commission (SFAC) voted to disassemble Armand Vaillancourt’s namesake fountain. Two days prior, the San Francisco Chronicle ...