In 1985 the San Francisco "Downtown Plan” was adopted including Code Section 429, better known as the "1% for Art" program.
In a nutshell, the code requires that the developer of a new building or of the addition of 25,000-plus square feet to an existing building within the downtown commercial district devote at least 1% of the construction budget to public art installations.
The two inspiring pieces you see here are located in the public plaza at Tishman Speyer's 555 Mission Street the back of which fronts the Transbay Transit Center development site.
Since program inception there have been 39 installations and you can visit all of them by clicking here. The Transbay Transit Center development, scheduled for completion in 2017 has a current budget of $1.2 billion - a quick calculation means that after those noisy jackhammers stop we should be looking forward to some $12 million worth of public art installations South of Market in the next few years.
I'm all for that - and speaking of "art" and "noise", why not some Art of Noise?
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