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<FONT size L 1><B>STRUCTURES OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA</B> : These are my images of the various structures and street furniture in the City of San Francisco. More images will be added to this gallery as the years go on.

STRUCTURES OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA

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These are my images of the various structures and street furniture in ...

Updated: Nov 15, 2006 12:45pm PST

<FONT size L-1 COLOR 5F9F9F><B>ASIAN ART MUSEUM - ART & ARCHITECTURE</font></a> : The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco is located in San Francisco, California, United States. It has one of the most comprehensive collections of Asian art in the world. Until recently housed at the de Young in Golden Gate Park, the Asian Art Museum re-opened on March 20, 2003 in the former San Francisco city library building opposite the San Francisco Civic Center, renovated for the purpose under the direction of Italian architect Gae Aulenti of Musée d'Orsay fame. The collection has over 15,000 works of art and artifacts from all major Asian countries and traditions, some of which are as much as 6,000 years old. Major galleries are devoted to the arts of India, China, western Asia (including Persia), South-East Asia, Korea and Japan. There are 2,500 works on display in the permanent collection. The museum owes its origin to a donation to the city of San Francisco by Chicago millionaire Avery Brundage, who was a major collector of Asian art. The Society for Asian Art, incorporated in 1958, was the group that formed specifically to gain Avery Brundage's collection. The museum opened in 1966 as a wing of the M. H. de Young Memorial Museum in Golden Gate Park. Brundage continued to make donations to the museum, including the bequest of all his remaining personal art collection on his death in 1975. In total, Brundage donated more than 7,700 Asian art objects to San Francisco, i.e. just over half the museum's current collection. In 1995, Silicon Valley entrepreneur Chong-Moon Lee made a $15 million donation to launch the funding campaign for a new building for the museum. The museum has become a focus for special and travelling exhibitions, including: the first major Chinese exhibition to travel outside China since the end of World War II (in 1975); an archaeological exhibition which attracted 800,000 visitors over an eight week period; an exhibition on Wisdom and Compassion opened by the Dalai Lama in 1991; and a display of the famous terra-cotta warriors of China's ancient city of Xi'an.

ASIAN ART MUSEUM - ART & ARCHITECTURE

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The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco is located in San Francisco, Cal ...

Updated: Nov 14, 2006 2:11pm PST

<FONT size L-1><B>DE YOUNG MUSEUM, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA</FONT> : Founded in 1895 in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, the de Young Museum has been an integral part of the cultural fabric of the city and a cherished destination for millions of residents and visitors to the region for over 100 years. On October 15, 2005, the de Young Museum re-opened in a state-of-the-art new facility that integrates art, architecture and the natural landscape in one multi-faceted destination that will inspire audiences from around the world. Designed by the renowned Swiss architecture firm Herzog & de Meuron and Fong & Chan Architects in San Francisco, the new de Young provided San Francisco with a landmark art museum to showcase the museum’s priceless collections of American art from the 17th through the 20th centuries, and art of the native Americas, Africa, and the Pacific. Information from www.thinker.org

DE YOUNG MUSEUM, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF...

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Founded in 1895 in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, the de Young Mus ...

Updated: Oct 20, 2006 8:25am PST

Doors of Woodstock Vermont :

Doors of Woodstock Vermont

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Updated: Oct 16, 2006 3:23pm PST

Architecture as Art :

Architecture as Art

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Updated: Sep 19, 2006 7:24am PST

WALT DISNEY CONCERT HALL, LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA : The Walt Disney Concert Hall is the home of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. It is designed to be one of the most acoustically sophisticated concert halls in the world, providing both visual and aural intimacy for an unparalleled musical experience. From the stainless steel curves of its striking exterior to the state-of-the-art acoustics of the hardwood-paneled main auditorium, the 3.6-acre complex embodies the unique energy and creative spirit of the City of Los Angeles and its orchestra. The building was designed by Frank o. Gehry, Architect. The photos were taken during my trip to Los Angeles in January 2005.

WALT DISNEY CONCERT HALL, LOS ANGELES...

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The Walt Disney Concert Hall is the home of the Los Angeles Philharmon ...

Updated: Sep 14, 2006 10:43am PST

<FONT size L-1><B>PERSHING SQUARE, LOS ANGELES</FONT></a> : In 1866, Mayor Aguilar dedicated this land in the middle of downtown L.A. for use naming it La Plaza Abaja (Lower Plaza). In 1886, the plaza became an office park and later still, it was redesigned in 1911 by John Parkinson, prominent L.A. architect. During WWI, it was used for the militia and named Pershing Square in honor of the general. In 1989, CRA assisted the Department of Recreation and Parks with funding renovate the park into its present form. World-renowned architect Richardo Legorreta brings the pure fields of color and sculptural forms of his teacher Luis Barragan to his design of the park. The distinctive, contemporary Latin American feel of the plaza embraces integrated landscapes by Laurie Olin and California artist Barbara McCarren make this a landmark of cultural activity. Information from http://losangeles.citysearch.com/profile/11288770

PERSHING SQUARE, LOS ANGELES

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In 1866, Mayor Aguilar dedicated this land in the middle of downtown L ...

Updated: Sep 11, 2006 2:54pm PST

<FONT size L-1><B><h-1>BRADBURY BUILDING, LOS ANGELES</F></FONT> : The story of the Bradbury building is as dramatic as the building itself. Inspired by an 1880's science fiction story, designed with an assist from the occult by a draftsman with no architectural or engineering training and built by a mining millionaire as his monument to himself, a unque entity that would ensure the perpetuation of his name. The Bradbury Building was built in 1893. Lewis Bradbury commissioned an architectural draftsman George Wyman to design the building. He turned the building inward upon itself. The Italian Renaissance exterior facade is of brown brick and sandstone terra cotta. It is the beauty of the dazzling center court of the interior that gave the building its fame.

BRADBURY BUILDING, LOS ANGELES

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The story of the Bradbury building is as dramatic as the building itse ...

Updated: Sep 08, 2006 1:55pm PST

<FONT size L-1><B><h-1>UNION STATION, LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA</B></L-1></FONT> : Union Station, built in 1939, is considered to be "The last of America's great rail stations." Located in Downtown Los Angeles on 800 N. Alameda St., between the Santa Ana Freeway (US 101) and Cesar E. Chavez Avenue (Formerly Macy St.), this was, is and will be the home of Los Angeles transportation - past, present and future.

UNION STATION, LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA

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Union Station, built in 1939, is considered to be "The last of America ...

Updated: Sep 07, 2006 3:57pm PST

<FONT size L-1><B>HISTORIC CITY HALL, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA</FONT> : The City Hall of San Francisco California, opened in 1915, in its open space area in the city's Civic Center, is a Beaux-Arts monument to the brief "City Beautiful" movement that epitomized the high-minded American Renaissance of the period 1880-1917. The present building is actually a replacement for an earlier City Hall that was completely destroyed during the 1906 Earthquake. this building is now in the National Register of Historic Places. The architect was Arthur Brown Jr., whose attention to the finishing details extended to the doorknobs and the typeface to be used in signage. Brown also designed San Francisco's War Memorial Opera House, Veterans Building, Temple Emanuel, Coit Tower and the Federal office building at 50 United Nations Plaza.

HISTORIC CITY HALL, SAN FRANCISCO, CA...

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The City Hall of San Francisco California, opened in 1915, in its open ...

Updated: Aug 27, 2006 11:32am PST

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