Focus on Vaillancourt Fountain and explain the Location.
The fountain is in a highly visible spot on the downtown San Francisco waterfront, in Justin Herman Plaza, where Market Street meets The Embarcadero. The Hyatt Regency Hotel is at the edge of the plaza, adjacent to the other four highrise towers of the Embarcadero Center. Across The Embarcadero is the Ferry Building, and the eastern end of the California Street cable car line is on the other side of the Hyatt Regency Hotel.When Vaillancourt designed the fountain, the elevated Embarcadero Freeway or Interstate 480, was still in existence along the Embarcadero. The fountain was designed with the freeway environment in mind, but it was built to bring people to an expansive public space, as San Francisco Chronicle architecture critic John King calls it "an act of defiant distraction until the freeway came down in 1991".
Hyatt Regency Hotel California Street cable car line Embarcadero Center Ferry Building San Francisco Interstate 480 Market Street San Francisco Chronicle Justin Herman Plaza Embarcadero Freeway Justin Herman The Embarcadero